BlockBefore

Middle Inlet, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Middle Inlet town. It lies in ZIP code area 54114. The Survey maps it on the Wausaukee South quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Middle Inlet within Marinette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 9 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Middle Inlet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 188 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 13 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
Debris and open burning52
Equipment and vehicle use40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism13
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural5
Fireworks4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTRAW FIRE
5 September 1995Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1998Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 1997Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2008Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marinette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Middle Inlet: 17 past producers, 13 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Camp Five DepositMolybdenumOccurrence1937
Absent Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Another Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boot Soul Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Camp Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
County Road Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crivitz Gravel Deposit # 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Crivitz Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Crivitz Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crivitz Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marinette County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middle Inlet in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMiddle Inlet$8,000no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindMiddle Inlet$2,000no account filed
August 2023HailMiddle Inlet-Tennis ball size hail fell in Middle Inlet. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2022Tornado (EF1)Middle Inlet-A tornado formed at 6:34 pm CDT near Middle Inlet in central Marinette County and tracked northeast before dissipating at 6:41 pm near Wausaukee. Total path length is estimated to be 6.601 miles long, with a width of 200 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 93 mph.
April 2021HailMiddle Inlet-Quarter size hail fell near Middle Inlet.
June 2000HailMiddle Inlet-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindMiddle Inlet-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindMiddle Inlet-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindMiddle Inlet-no account filed
June 1998HailMiddle Inlet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marinette 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
Sweetheart City1.5 miles9
Crivitz4.2 miles10
Wausaukee5.9 miles9
Loomis8.4 miles10
Athelstane10.6 miles8
Beaver10.7 miles10
Cedarville11.2 miles9
Goll12.8 miles9

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 Middle InletAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6841460The 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 1569420. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.