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Neva, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Neva town. It lies in ZIP code area 54424. The Survey maps it on the Bryant quadrangle. It stands 1,568 feet above sea level.

Neva within Langlade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Neva between 1992 and 2019, burning about 56 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use17
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Natural1

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
14 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesIN THE DITCH
8 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 1993Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCHURCH RD FIRE
21 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2005Debris and open burning1.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Langlade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Neva: 8 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Angle Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chillie Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Deerbrook Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Duffek Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Langlade County Highway Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Langlade County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Neva Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Reeves Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rocky Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Singer Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Langlade County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neva in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2012: 2 hail, 2 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 2012Thunderstorm WindNeva-Thunderstorm winds downed trees a few miles northeast of Antigo.
August 2007HailNeva-Hail up to penny size accompanied damaging winds in Neva.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindNeva-Strong winds from a thunderstorm tore the roof from a small building.
September 2002HailNeva-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Langlade 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
Neva Corners2.1 miles9
Deerbrook2.3 miles9
Kempster4.5 miles10
Bryant5.2 miles8
Sherry Junction6.8 miles8
Antigo7.2 miles9
Koepenick7.3 miles10
Ormsby7.5 miles11

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 NevaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7003255The 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 1570194. 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.