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Oulu, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oulu town. It lies in ZIP code area 54847. The Survey maps it on the Oulu quadrangle. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Oulu within Bayfield County

On record in Oulu

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 10 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Oulu between 1992 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning34
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Other causes2
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
8 September 1998Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2007Arson/incendiarism5.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHOOVER FIRE
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Recreation and ceremony12 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bayfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Oulu: 3 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead. 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
Unnamed Prospect Near WainoCopper, LeadOccurrence
Hokkinen Rd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
PercivalCopperUnknownCopper
South Slope PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Prospect Near WainoCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bayfield 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
Muskeg4.8 miles13
Wills6.5 miles10
Iron River8.1 miles13
Topside12.2 miles12
Port Wing12.4 miles10
Delta17.7 miles12
Pike River19.5 miles11
Herbster19.9 miles10

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 OuluAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7110474The 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 1570925. 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.