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Namekagon, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Namakagon town. It lies in ZIP code area 54821. It stands on Castle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Namekagon Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,404 feet above sea level.

Namekagon within Bayfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Namekagon between 1994 and 2019, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestMCCLOUD LAKE
2 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestEAGLE POINT
1 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestGARDEN LAKE
28 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCASTLE 2
31 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestOAK
29 July 2007Natural3.2 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestGHOST CREEK
6 June 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestOK 2
30 June 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestROCK LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bayfield County

Storms near this place

30 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Namekagon in 30 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 19 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindNamekagon-Two balsam trees were downed by the storm.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindNamekagon-Measured by an anemometer located 90 feet above the ground and above the tree tops.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindNamekagon-Measured by an anemometer located 90 feet above the ground and above the tree tops.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNamekagon-Trees were down onto the roadway.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNamekagon-An 8-inch diameter tree was downed near Namekagon.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNamekagon-Trees were downed onto power lines near Namekagon causing power outages.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNamekagon-A 10 to 12 inch diameter birch tree was downed. The tree may not have been the healthiest as the leaves looked worse than they had in previous years.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNamekagon-The storm produced damaging winds that led to downed trees and power outages near Namekagon.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNamekagon-Power lines were downed by the storm.
September 2011HailNamekagon-Nickel size hail completely covered the ground.
June 2010HailNamekagon-The hail report is from Lake Five.
June 2010HailNamekagon-Strong winds also occurred at the Garmisch Resort.
June 2010HailNamekagon-Half dollar size hail covered the ground.
June 2025HailNamekagon-no account filed
May 2022HailNamekagon-no account filed
May 2022HailNamekagon-no account filed
June 2022HailNamekagon-no account filed
June 2022HailNamekagon-no account filed
June 2022HailNamekagon-no account filed
June 2022HailNamekagon-no account filed
June 2022HailNamekagon-no account filed
July 2021HailNamekagon-no account filed
June 2014HailNamekagon-no account filed
September 2011HailNamekagon-no account filed
May 2011HailNamekagon-no account filed
June 2010HailNamekagon-no account filed
April 2004HailNamekagon-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindNamekagon-no account filed
July 1999HailNamekagon-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindNamekagon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bayfield 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
Grand View11.2 miles9
Lake Owen (historical)11.7 miles13
Lake Owen11.9 miles13
Cable13.1 miles9
Drummond14.2 miles13
Radspur14.6 miles9
Leonards14.9 miles9
Mason15.4 miles8

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 NamekagonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6961567The 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 1579987. 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.