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Spirit, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Spirit town. It lies in ZIP code area 54459. The Survey maps it on the Spirit quadrangle.

Spirit within Price 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Spirit between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28 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
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
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
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2013Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 86
25 June 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY D
1 June 1994Smoking3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 102

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Spirit: 9 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold, Zinc. 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
Ritchie Creek PropsectCopper, Gold, ZincProspect1979
Bluff Road Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Engstrom Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hilmar Olson Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holmes Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hultman Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Jacobson Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Knox Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marheime Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
New Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Price County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spirit in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2022Flash FloodSpirit-A school bus became stranded in flood waters when the shoulder washed out underneath it and it partially tipped. Four students and the driver were helped from the bus to safety and there were no injuries reported, although the bus driver was taken to the hospital to be checked out. The bus went through the flooded section of road 15 minutes prior to returning and trying to make it through a second time.
May 2017Funnel CloudSpirit-A trained weather spotter reported a funnel cloud moving along 102 toward Spirit, Wisconsin. The storm associated with the funnel cloud was the same storm that produced the tornado that traveled across 4 Wisconsin counties (Polk, Barron, Rusk, and Price).

Every storm recorded in Price 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
Brantwood7.5 miles8
Ogema9.8 miles9
Prentice11.1 miles10
Worcester14.0 miles10
Dover15.5 miles11
Pennington15.7 miles10
Cranberry Lake17.8 miles10
Phillips22.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1574553. 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.