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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Wyeville quadrangle1:48000
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Mather quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
56 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 57 acres | Necedah National Wildlife Refuge | SILVER CREEK |
| 25 September 1999 | Smoking | 4.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Great Lakes Agency | HOCHUNK 2 |
| 8 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 June 2014 | Natural | 5.6 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BUCKLEY FIRE |
| 8 June 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BEND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF2) | Mather | $4,400,000 | This 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mather | $750 | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mather | $500 | Large tree branches were blown down north of Mather. |
| September 2010 | Heavy Rain | Mather | - | 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadow Valley | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Cutler | 8.9 miles | 14 | |
| Sprague | 9.4 miles | 12 | |
| Finley | 10.4 miles | 12 | |
| Cloverdale | 10.6 miles | 14 | |
| New Miner | 14.6 miles | 13 | |
| Lone Rock | 14.6 miles | 12 | |
| Necedah | 14.8 miles | 12 |
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 Mather | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6786926 | The 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.





