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Roosevelt, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Pine Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 54501. It stands on Shepard Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moen Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,575 feet above sea level.

Roosevelt within Oneida 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Roosevelt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking6
Fireworks5
Other causes5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor5

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 1998Arson/incendiarism11 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRASMUSSON FIRE
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH SHORE
7 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida 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 Roosevelt: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. 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
Faust Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Foss Lake Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Jennie Webber Lake Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pine Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roosevelt in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2014: 1 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindRoosevelt-Thunderstorm winds downed trees at Pine Lake and produced pea size hail.
October 2012HailRoosevelt-Nickel size hail fell north of Rhinelander.

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Malvern4.7 miles9
Starks5.0 miles9
Rhinelander5.7 miles9
Sugar Camp8.5 miles12
Gagen9.4 miles9
Newbold10.5 miles12
Monico10.7 miles8
Crescent Corner11.6 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 RooseveltAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7366398The 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 1572566. 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.