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Northland, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Harrison town. It lies in ZIP code area 54945. The Survey maps it on the Iola quadrangle.

Northland within Waupaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

68 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Northland between 1993 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Natural2

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
2 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNORSKE ROAD FIRE
4 July 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2012Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCEDAR RD. HOUSE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca County

Storms near this place

13 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northland in 13 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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
March 2019FloodNorthland$87,500Runoff from rainfall and melting snow, along with clogged storm drains and ice jams, caused numerous roads, ditches, streams and low-lying areas to flood throughout Waupaca County. Some roads were damaged by the flooding and required repairs after the water receded.
April 2026HailNorthland-Half dollar size hail fell near Northland.
June 2025HailNorthland-Quarter size hail fell near Iola.
July 2025Tornado (EF0)Northland-A tornado briefly touched down north of Northland at 5:04 PM CDT, moving east-northeast before turning east-southeast and then dissipating at 5:13 PM CDT. The tornado snapped and uprooted a few trees and produced minor damage to a house. Based on satellite analysis, there may have been a few brief moments where the tornado lifted off the ground before dissipating west of Big Falls. Total path length is estimated to be 5.69 miles long, with a width of 45 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 75 mph.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNorthland-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees in Iola. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2018HailNorthland-A thunderstorm dropped golf ball size hail as it passed through northwest Waupaca County.
July 2018HailNorthland-A thunderstorm dropped golf ball size hail as it pass through northwest Waupaca County.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindNorthland-Thunderstorms winds downed a few trees in northwest Waupaca County. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindNorthland-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees and power lines north of Iola.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindNorthland-A thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph was measured in northwest Waupaca County.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNorthland-The thunderstorm that dropped golf ball size hail as it moved across Waupaca County also produced high winds that knocked down numerous trees.
June 2007HailNorthland-no account filed
July 2007HailNorthland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waupaca 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
Norske4.0 miles7
Petersville (historical)4.1 miles7
Schmidt Corner4.6 miles7
Iola7.3 miles7
Scandinavia9.7 miles8
Big Falls10.3 miles7
Granite City (historical)11.8 miles8
Ogdensburg13.6 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 NorthlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7059498The 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 1570526. 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.