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Rudolph, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rudolph Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54475. The Survey maps it on the Wisconsin Rapids North quadrangle. 1,027 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.

Rudolph within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Rudolph between 1992 and 2020, burning about 306 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
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
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAY BALE 2
9 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTRAW FIRE
15 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMISIEWICZ PEAT FIRE
10 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined102 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSIGEL FIRE
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18150
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18173
23 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rudolph in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRudolph$50,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRudolph$2,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRudolph-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Rudolph. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2015HailRudolph-A thunderstorms dropped three-inch diameter hail as it passed through Rudloph. The time of this event is estimated based on radar data.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindRudolph-A spotter in Rudolph estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph. The storm also produced penny size hail.
July 2011HailRudolph-Penny size hail fell with a thunderstorm that also produced a wind gust to 60 mph.
April 2006HailRudolph-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Biron5.2 miles8
Eight Corners6.5 miles8
Wisconsin Rapids7.8 miles8
Milladore7.9 miles5
Vesper8.3 miles8
Sherry8.3 miles6
Lake Wazeecha9.0 miles8
Blenker9.9 miles6

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 RudolphAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963365The 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 1572713. 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.

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.