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Sugar Camp, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sugar Camp town. It lies in ZIP code area 54501. The Survey maps it on the Sugar Camp quadrangle. It stands 1,660 feet above sea level.

Sugar Camp within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Camp between 1992 and 2019, burning about 36 acres in total. 1 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 burning23
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes2
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
7 September 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPEAT FIREWORKS
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2018Debris and open burning1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBLACKBERRY
8 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesINDIAN LK RD POWERLINE
24 July 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder 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

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Camp: 7 past producers, 4 occurrences. 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
Allens Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cross Road Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Dead End Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Echo Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jennie Webber Lake Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jennie Webber Lake Sand Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kathan Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pine Lake Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Railway Lane Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Sugar Camp Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sugar Camp in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 7 hail, 4 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
May 2021HailSugar Camp-Quarter size hail fell in Sugar Camp.
June 2021HailSugar Camp-Penny size hail fell near Sugar Camp.
July 2021HailSugar Camp-Ping pong size hail fell south of Sugar Camp.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSugar Camp-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Sugar Camp. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSugar Camp-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines at Sugar Camp.
April 2017HailSugar Camp-Quarter size hail fell at Sugar Camp.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSugar Camp-Thunderstorm wind downed numerous trees and power lines.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSugar Camp-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Sugar Camp.
August 2016HailSugar Camp-Quarter size hail fell at Sugar Camp as thunderstorms passed.
May 2011HailSugar Camp-One-half to one inch diameter hail fell in Sugar Camp.
April 2008HailSugar Camp-Golf ball size hail fell at Sugar Camp.

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
Clearwater Lake7.8 miles13
Three Lakes8.0 miles13
Roosevelt8.5 miles9
Starks10.3 miles9
Rhinelander12.1 miles9
Newbold12.3 miles12
McNaughton12.9 miles12
Malvern13.0 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 Sugar CampAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7634771The 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 1575015. 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.