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Sutherland, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Mason town. It lies in ZIP code area 54856. It stands on Hanson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grandview NW quadrangle. It stands 932 feet above sea level.

Sutherland within Bayfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Sutherland between 1992 and 2019, burning about 95 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
30 September 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 1998Debris and open burning1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1992Debris and open burning1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1992Misuse of fire by a minor15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE RIVER POWERLINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bayfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sutherland: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 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
Harlow Detle Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mason Township Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mildred Westbeg Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Nels Olson Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bayfield County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sutherland in 2 storm reports in 2011: 2 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSutherland-Numerous trees were blown down around Barnes, WI.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSutherland-Numerous trees were blown down around Barnes WI. Estimated wind speed is derived from the NWS WFO Duluth Storm Survey derived Wind Damage Swath Map of this episode.

Every storm recorded in Bayfield 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
Pike River3.7 miles11
Delta5.5 miles12
Grand View6.0 miles9
Mason6.2 miles8
Ino6.4 miles13
Benoit6.9 miles12
Drummond8.2 miles13
Moquah10.4 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 SutherlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7649957The 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 1580563. 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.