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Trego, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Trego town. It lies in ZIP code area 54888. It stands on Potato Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trego quadrangle.

Trego within Washburn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Trego between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 burning30
Equipment and vehicle use30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Recreation and ceremony9
Fireworks8
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2

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
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLABOR DAY
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHORNETS NEST
12 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTREGO TROUBLE
10 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2010Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPIZZA TRAIN 2
28 August 2010Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPIZZA TRAIN 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washburn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Trego: 17 occurrences, 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Chauncey Jacobsen Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chauncey Jacobsen Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Douglas M. Strunk Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Edward Stueckler Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Fred & Lucille Bohne Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
G. M. Thompson Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
George V. Greenfield Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gerald Campbell Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hannah Doyne Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Haugen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washburn County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trego in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 14 hail, 4 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 2010Thunderstorm WindTrego$10,000Many trees were blown down across the county, especially in the Trego area and north side of Spooner.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindTrego-A few trees were knocked down in the storm along with lawn furniture being tossed and damaged.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindTrego-A boat lift was flipped with multiple others being shifted and having their covers ripped on the north side of Spooner Lake. A window was also broken by an airborne piece of a dock weighing 40 pounds.
August 2015HailTrego-There was pea to nickel sized hail.
June 2013HailTrego-Pea to nickel size hail fell. Full trees were swaying in the wind.
September 2007HailTrego-Golf ball sized hail.
May 2022HailTrego-no account filed
May 2022HailTrego-no account filed
May 2022HailTrego-no account filed
September 2017HailTrego-no account filed
September 2007HailTrego-no account filed
September 2007HailTrego-no account filed
May 2001HailTrego-no account filed
June 2001HailTrego-no account filed
June 2001HailTrego-no account filed
June 2001HailTrego-no account filed
June 1998HailTrego-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTrego-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washburn 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
Earl3.3 miles8
Lampson5.8 miles8
Spooner6.4 miles8
Chicago Junction7.5 miles8
Springbrook7.8 miles8
Beaver Brook10.1 miles8
Madge11.8 miles8
Shell Lake12.4 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1575585. 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.