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Taegesville, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Maine Village. The Survey maps it on the Brokaw quadrangle. It stands 1,401 feet above sea level.

Taegesville within Marathon 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Taegesville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 42 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY K FIRE
30 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY A FIRE
15 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROMAN CANDLE FIRE
20 July 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY F FIRE
15 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Taegesville: 12 occurrences, 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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
Anderson Brothers and Johnson Co.GranitePast Producer
Rib Mountain QuarryGraniteProducer
Ruby Red QuarryGraniteProducer
County Line Creek Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dale Howard Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fourth Avenue Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Granite Heights Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Granite Heights Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lincoln Drive Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Unnamed Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taegesville in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 2017Tornado (EF1)Taegesville-A brief and fast moving tornado developed in association with a |small line of severe thunderstorms in Marathon County. Straight-line wind damage|occurred with the severe thunderstorm in addition to the tornado. Two structures sustained significant storm damage. One had several windows broken and some roofing material ripped off (DI 2, DOD 2 and 3). The other had a garage door blown in and some roof damage (DI 2, DOD 2 and 4). There was minor damage to several others (DI 2, DOD 2). Around 100 mature pine trees were snapped (DI 28, DOD 3 and 4).
July 2010Thunderstorm WindTaegesville-Over 200 pine trees were snapped or uprooted just east of Little Chicago by a powerful downburst. Some of the trees and part of a grain storage unit were blown onto a nearby road.

Every storm recorded in Marathon 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
Maine2.3 miles12
Naugart3.9 miles9
Brokaw4.1 miles12
Granite Heights4.7 miles12
Emmerich6.2 miles9
Little Chicago6.2 miles9
Mount View6.6 miles12
Stettin (historical)6.7 miles7

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 TaegesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7674731The 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 1577848. 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.