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Sunflower, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lake Tomahawk town. It lies in ZIP code area 54539. It lies near Dead Island. The Survey maps it on the Hazelhurst quadrangle. It stands 1,598 feet above sea level.

Sunflower within Oneida County

On record in Sunflower

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 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Sunflower between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism19
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking5
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BAY FIRE
15 August 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 1998Other causesunder 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 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Sunflower: 7 past producers, 5 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
Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Clawson Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gilmore Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hazelhurst Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Katherine Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Minocqua Township Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sureshot Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Yawkey Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunflower in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 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
October 2024HailSunflower-Nickel size hail fell near Lake Tomahawk. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.

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
Lake Tomahawk2.7 miles12
Hazelhurst4.4 miles12
Rantz5.0 miles12
Minocqua5.9 miles12
Woodruff7.1 miles12
McNaughton7.1 miles12
Goodnow7.5 miles12
Harshaw9.5 miles12

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 SunflowerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7640004The 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 1873784. 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.