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Trade River, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Anderson town. It lies in ZIP code area 54840. It stands on North Fork Trade River. The Survey maps it on the Trade River quadrangle.

Trade River within Burnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

78 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Trade River between 1993 and 2020, burning about 286 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Natural2
Fireworks2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
1 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMEDCHILL ROAD FIRE #1
31 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMEDCHILL ROAD FIRE #3
31 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMEDCHILL ROAD FIRE #2
7 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2001Fireworks27 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burnett County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Trade River: 6 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Unnamed Prospect Near Forsythe LaCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Forsythe LaCopperOccurrence
Amundson Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Amundson Sand Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Atlas Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Atlas Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bass Lake Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Osceola PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Round Lake Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Trade River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Burnett County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trade River in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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 2024Thunderstorm WindTrade River-Tree branches up to 1.5 inches in diameter were broken along with power outages.
April 2004Tornado (F0)Trade River-Around 200 large trees were knocked down in a path across wooded land. The tornado touched down just north of the county line between Polk and Burnett counties, and proceeded east-northeast through the woods. Some of the trees knocked down were 15 to 20 inches in diameter. The USFS in Trade River recorded a 64.5 mph wind gust.
May 2025HailTrade River-no account filed
July 2020HailTrade River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burnett 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
Four Corners4.6 miles16
Trade Lake5.1 miles16
Branstad6.2 miles16
Pole Cat Crossing7.6 miles16
Grantsburg8.9 miles12
Lind9.1 miles16
Randall9.2 miles16
Alpha9.9 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 Trade RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7831969The 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 1575565. 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.