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Sunnyside, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Superior town. It lies in ZIP code area 54880. The Survey maps it on the Sunnyside quadrangle. It stands 702 feet above sea level.

Sunnyside within Douglas County

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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 378 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Railroad operations and maintenance52
Equipment and vehicle use45
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes2
Fireworks2

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 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 53-2
9 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenance3.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 53 -1
15 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Sunnyside: 7 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Copper Creek Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Copper Creek Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
George Larson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Granum QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
CatlinCopperUnknownCopper
Copper CreekCopperUnknownCopper
Copper Creek Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Copper Creek Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fon Du LacCopperUnknownCopper, Malachite
Hemmerling PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunnyside in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 3 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSunnyside-A 12 to 13 inch tree was snapped at the base by the storm.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSunnyside-A report was received of a tree that had been uprooted or snapped.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSunnyside-The thunderstorm winds snapped a few 6 inch diameter trees.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Ambridge2.4 miles16
Boylston Junction3.4 miles12
Boylston3.9 miles12
South Range3.9 miles8
Parkland4.3 miles9
Superior Village4.4 miles16
South Itasca4.8 miles16
South Superior4.9 miles16

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 SunnysideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7640865The 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 1577845. 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.