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Phlox, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Norwood town. It lies in ZIP code area 54409. The Survey maps it on the Mattoon quadrangle. It stands 1,306 feet above sea level.

Phlox within Langlade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Phlox between 1992 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use27
Debris and open burning24
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
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
23 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTROUT ROAD FIRE
22 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use54 acresMenominee TribeCOUNTY S
20 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Langlade County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Phlox: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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
Keppel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Trout Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Langlade County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phlox in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 4 hail, 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
October 2018Thunderstorm WindPhlox$3,000Thunderstorm winds uprooted approximately 40 trees and caused a barn to collapse.
July 2015HailPhlox-Half dollar size hail fell near Phlox.
August 2014HailPhlox-Quarter size hail fell at Phlox.
August 2014HailPhlox-Quarter size hail fell south of Phlox.
May 1996HailPhlox-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Langlade 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
Polar8.2 miles8
Elmhurst9.0 miles8
Antigo9.6 miles9
Elton10.5 miles8
Bryant10.8 miles8
Sherry Junction11.7 miles8
Four Corners12.1 miles8
Neva Corners13.5 miles9

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 PhloxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7186533The 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 1571305. 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.