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New Post, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Hunter town. It lies in ZIP code area 54828. It stands on Spooky Bay Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Post quadrangle.

New Post within Sawyer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of New Post between 1993 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCHIP FIRE
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyTIGER MUSKY ROAD
5 July 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBAKER CAMPFIRE FIRE
5 July 2006Fireworksunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyBLUEBERRY LK ISLAND
4 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMUSKY
19 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Post in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Post$5,000Numerous trees were blown down.
June 2017Flash FloodNew Post$1,000A culvert washed out on North County Road CC.
June 2017Flash FloodNew Post$1,000Parts of West Flowage Road closed due to flooding.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Post-Several trees were broken off halfway up the trunk.
September 2019HailNew Post-no account filed
July 2011HailNew Post-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sawyer 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
Ojibwa7.7 miles8
Chief Lake8.1 miles8
Radisson9.0 miles8
Couderay9.4 miles9
Winter10.6 miles8
Reserve10.7 miles9
Little Round Lake10.8 miles8
Northwoods Beach11.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1580001. 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.