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Ringle, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ringle town. The Survey maps it on the Ringle quadrangle. It stands 1,329 feet above sea level.

Ringle within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

57 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Ringle between 1993 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 use14
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 1994Recreation and ceremony16 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGUINEA HEN
1 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Ringle: 6 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
Callon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
George Will Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hatley Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hatley Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hatley Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
M Lapinski Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Silver Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Vlietstra Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ringle in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
July 1997Tornado (F1)Ringle$100,000no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRingle$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and tore shingles from roofs.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindRingle$1,000no account filed
July 2023HailRingle-Quarter size hail fell in Ringle.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindRingle-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees as they passed just to the north of Ringle.
July 2010HailRingle-Golf ball size hail fell about 12 miles east of Wausau.

Every storm recorded in Marathon 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
Callon4.2 miles12
Hatley4.6 miles9
Pike Lake6.2 miles9
Weston6.5 miles12
Little Eau Claire7.3 miles9
Kelly7.4 miles12
Sunset8.5 miles11
Bevent8.5 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 RingleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7334913The 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 1572328. 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.