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Salmo, Wisconsin

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

Salmo within Bayfield County

On record in Salmo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Salmo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
29 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWINSTON PROPERTY
11 September 2005Naturalunder an acreApostle Islands National LakeshoreSPLINTER WF
10 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2000Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2008Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bayfield 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 Salmo: 1 past producer. 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

Every working recorded in Bayfield County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salmo in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 2 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 WindSalmo-A 5 to 6 inch diameter tree was broken.
July 2023HailSalmo-no account filed
June 2020HailSalmo-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
Pureair1.1 miles10
Sioux3.1 miles11
Bayfield3.2 miles10
Red Cliff6.6 miles10
Washburn7.6 miles11
Sand Bay11.4 miles10
Barksdale11.6 miles13
Cornucopia13.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1573636. 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.