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Mather, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kingston town. It lies in ZIP code area 54666. The Survey maps it on the Mather quadrangle. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Mather within Juneau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

56 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Mather between 1993 and 2020, burning about 229 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Smoking3
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined57 acresNecedah National Wildlife RefugeSILVER CREEK
25 September 1999Smoking4.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyHOCHUNK 2
8 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 1997Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2014Natural5.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUCKLEY FIRE
8 June 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBEND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juneau County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mather in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Tornado (EF2)Mather$4,400,000This tornado entered into Juneau County southwest of Mather and then tracked northeast across the Necedah Wildlife Refuge between Mather and Finley damaging numerous trees. As the tornado approached Finley, it grew in size and was nearly a half mile wide as it crossed County Road F east of Finley. In this area, numerous trees were snapped or blown down with some of them landing on nearby homes. At a cranberry business east of Finley, all of the outbuildings and sheds were demolished and tossed into nearby fields and a loading deck platform and trucks were heavily damaged. Thick wooden power poles in this area were snapped or sheared off over a half mile long stretch. The tornado then weakened as it moved northeast toward the Wood-Juneau County line with damage to trees and some minor roof and siding damage. Total damages across Juneau county from this tornado were estimated to be $4.4 million.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindMather$750no account filed
September 2016Thunderstorm WindMather$500Large tree branches were blown down north of Mather.
September 2010Heavy RainMather-The storm total rainfall amounted to 4.38 inches. Elsewhere in the county, Volk Field recorded 3.26 inches, while 2.90 inches fell near Necedah.

Every storm recorded in Juneau County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Meadow Valley6.8 miles12
Cutler8.9 miles14
Sprague9.4 miles12
Finley10.4 miles12
Cloverdale10.6 miles14
New Miner14.6 miles13
Lone Rock14.6 miles12
Necedah14.8 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on MatherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6786926The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1569120. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.