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Red Cliff, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Russell town. It lies in ZIP code area 54814. It stands on Chicago Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bayfield quadrangle.

Red Cliff within Bayfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Red Cliff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 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
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyBLUEBERRY RD POWERLI
5 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2008Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreApostle Islands National LakeshoreBASSWOOD1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bayfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Red Cliff: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. 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
F. L. Wolfe Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Red Cliff Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Richard E. Smith Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Roy S. Smith Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bayfield County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Cliff in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindRed Cliff1 hurt, $8,000A large tree was blown down on to a camper trailer, sending one person to the hospital with serious head injuries.
June 2024Flash FloodRed Cliff$10,000Flooding was reported at the intersection of State Highway 13 and Blueberry Road in Red Cliff.
June 2014HailRed Cliff$10,000There was major damage to a camper trailer.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRed Cliff-Five to ten medium to large poplar trees were snapped approximately four to eight feet up and were across the road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRed Cliff-Several hundred trees down with approximately 70 percent uprooted and the rest snapped four to eight feet up, some higher. All were down in approximately the same direction. There was also some damage to trail infrastructure at Beaver Hollow.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRed Cliff-Approximately 20 to 30 trees were snapped near the base and partially across the road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRed Cliff-A tree was downed by the storm along the northern Bayfield Peninsula.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRed Cliff-An area of approximately one half mile long of trees were blown down along Blueberry Road between Frog Bay Road and Emil Road.
June 2011HailRed Cliff-no account filed

Every storm 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
Bayfield3.5 miles10
Pureair5.5 miles10
Salmo6.6 miles10
Sand Bay8.3 miles10
Sioux9.5 miles11
Washburn13.8 miles11
Cornucopia16.6 miles12
Barksdale17.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1572135. 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.