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Red Cedar, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Peru town. It lies in ZIP code area 54736. It stands on Red Cedar River. The Survey maps it on the Durand North quadrangle. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Red Cedar within Dunn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Red Cedar between 2012 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources33
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources32
6 May 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1081
8 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources25
8 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources24
19 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources14
15 October 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDUNNVILLE WA FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dunn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Red Cedar: 7 occurrences, 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Chippewa River Bar Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chippewa River Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cranes Bend Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Dunnville Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Robert Sol Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Yellow Bank Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Durand Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Durand Shale Quarry #4Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Falkner Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fall Creek Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Dunn County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Cedar in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
August 2009Thunderstorm WindRed Cedar$50,000A storm survey determined that straight-line winds caused numerous trees to be blown down or uprooted, along with a large trailer flipped over. The damaged area is approximately two miles long and 1/2 mile wide from near the intersection of State Road 85 and 690th Street, north-northeast to near 90th Street.

Every storm recorded in Dunn 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
Dunnville2.3 miles12
Old Tyrone (historical)2.8 miles12
Meridean6.0 miles12
Downsville6.4 miles13
Eau Galle6.7 miles13
Welch Point (historical)6.9 miles13
Falls City9.6 miles12
Comfort10.0 miles11

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 Red CedarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7303869The 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 1577787. 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.