Ojibwa, Wisconsin
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Ojibwa town. It lies in ZIP code area 54862. It stands on Crazy Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winter quadrangle. It stands 1,263 feet above sea level.
On record in Ojibwa
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Hall-Raynor Stopping Placelisted 1979
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1944 USGS Radisson quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Radisson quadrangle1:48000
- 1953 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Winter quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Spooner quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
49 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Ojibwa between 1992 and 2019, burning about 65 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 June 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HELSING |
| 7 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.1 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | ENDICOTT |
| 6 May 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.1 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BRUNET LANE |
| 6 May 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | JUNK YARD FIRE |
| 5 May 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HIGHLAND ROAD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 23 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Ojibwa: 12 occurrences, 11 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brunet River Gravel Deposit #5 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Chippewa River Gravel Pit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Chippewa River Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Crooked Rapids Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Dam Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Dorscheid Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Endicott Road Sand Deposit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Endicott Road Sand Deposit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Hemlock Spur Creek Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hemlock Spur Creek Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ojibwa in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 1 flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Flood | Ojibwa | $1,000 | Several sections of Wisconsin State Highway 27 flooded between Ojibwa and Couderay. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ojibwa | - | Trees were downed across roads and power lines with reports of power outages. |
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.
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 Ojibwa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7081613 | The 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 1570759. 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.





