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Rodell, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lincoln town. It lies in ZIP code area 54722. The Survey maps it on the Augusta West quadrangle. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Rodell within Eau Claire County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Rodell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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 burning24
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
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
9 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBIG RED FIRE
13 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eau Claire County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rodell: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Strader Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Eau Claire 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
Augusta4.5 miles12
Fall Creek5.6 miles14
Hale Corner6.2 miles12
Ludington8.2 miles11
Foster8.4 miles12
Brackett8.7 miles12
Hay Creek9.0 miles12
Green Acres9.1 miles12

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 RodellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7356523The 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 1572523. 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.