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Springstead, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Sherman town. It lies in ZIP code area 54552. The Survey maps it on the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage quadrangle. It stands 1,621 feet above sea level.

Springstead within Iron County

On record in Springstead

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Springstead between 1994 and 2020, burning about 187 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestDOUBLE NEWMAN
20 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBRANCH
11 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPICKEREL BAY
22 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMILEY
10 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2000Natural79 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2000Natural29 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestBEAVER CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Springstead: 11 occurrences, 4 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
Beaver Creek Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Beaver Creek Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Boot Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cecil Lovell Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cecil Lovell Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Dump Rd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ferry Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Fred Losby PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Kabol Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Little Muskie Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springstead in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2010Tornado (EF1)Springstead3 hurt, $160,000This tornado likely began on the southern tip of Big Island. Aerial photographs taken by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources showed evidence of tornado damage on smaller islands over the western part of the flowage between the Turtle Dam and Springstead Landing. These islands had large sections of trees completely destroyed - either snapped or uprooted, and the aerial photographs revealed trees laying across one another in a cross-hatched pattern, in a few cases at 90 degree incidence angles. ||Substantial tree damage began occurring near Springstead Landing and east into a small neighborhood near the intersection of Flowage Rd. and Franks Ln. A stand of large trees between Flowage Landing Rd. and Simmons Rd. was completely demolished with similar evidence of tornadic winds. All of the trees were snapped or uprooted. ||Impacts to cabins in the area started on the western edge of Simmons Rd. and then continued into the neighborhood near the northern tip of Flowage Rd. Some structures in this area were damaged by falling trees. The tree damage in this neighborhood was still rather significant, with large trees up to 2 feet in diameter uprooted or snapped. The tornado then continued east where uprooted and snapped trees were noted along the edge of the shoreline near campsites D-31, C-2, and D-35 before damage became much more sporadic near the canoe portage. It was at this point where the damage path narrowed and the tornado likely ended. Three campers were injured while camping at remote campsites on the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSpringstead1 hurtSeveral trees were knocked over by strong thunderstorm winds. A man was injured when an 18 inch diameter tree fell on him as he was in his camper on the Turtle Flambeau Flowage. Wind speed is estimated.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSpringstead-A tree was downed onto a road in Springstead.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSpringstead-Photos were received showing numerous large trees down across roads that were cracked near the base or uprooted.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSpringstead-Trees were blown down near Fishermans' Landing. Trees were also down across many other parts of Iron County.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSpringstead-Campers were stranded as their canoes and boats were blown away from their campsites.
May 2008HailSpringstead-The hail fell at Cedar Cove Cabins.

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Manitowish9.9 miles14
Powell10.4 miles15
Mercer10.4 miles14
Pine Lake15.9 miles10
Van Buskirk25.0 miles14
Upson27.7 miles11
Iron Belt27.7 miles11
Pence27.8 miles11

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 SpringsteadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7581181The 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 1577834. 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.