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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.

Ojibwa within Sawyer County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

49 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
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
5 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHELSING
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesENDICOTT
6 May 2019Arson/incendiarism7.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBRUNET LANE
6 May 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJUNK YARD FIRE
5 May 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHLAND ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brunet River Gravel Deposit #5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chippewa River Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chippewa River Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crooked Rapids Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Dam Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dorscheid Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Endicott Road Sand Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Endicott Road Sand Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hemlock Spur Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hemlock Spur Creek Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sawyer County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017FloodOjibwa$1,000Several sections of Wisconsin State Highway 27 flooded between Ojibwa and Couderay.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindOjibwa-Trees were downed across roads and power lines with reports of power outages.

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
Winter5.8 miles8
Radisson5.9 miles8
New Post7.7 miles11
Couderay10.1 miles9
Weirgor10.9 miles8
Exeland11.2 miles8
Lemington12.8 miles9
Chief Lake14.5 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 OjibwaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7081613The 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.