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Tuscobia, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Oak Grove town. It lies in ZIP code area 54868. It stands on Little Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Haugen quadrangle. It stands 1,184 feet above sea level.

Tuscobia within Barron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Tuscobia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1

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 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources321
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources287
12 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources298
9 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBARE LAKE FIRE
4 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources15TH STREET
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources192
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources191
23 April 2012Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAUGEN LAKE CABIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Tuscobia: 8 occurrences, 5 past producers. 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
Albert Kunesh Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Albert Kunesh Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
E. & G. Novak Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Evelyn Sorenson Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
H. P. Miller Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Haugen Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Henry Janecky Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Red Cedar River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Richard Richter Sand Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Richard Richter Sand Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Barron County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tuscobia in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2010Heavy RainTuscobia-An observer measured 4.40 inches of rainfall since 7 am.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindTuscobia-Pine trees and power poles downed near Rice Lake.

Every storm recorded in Barron 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
Haugen3.0 miles8
Dobie4.1 miles8
Rice Lake4.3 miles8
Brill5.2 miles8
Campia5.3 miles8
Mikana8.5 miles8
Angus9.5 miles8
Canton10.9 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 TuscobiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7856723The 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 1575748. 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.