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Veedum, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dexter town. It lies in ZIP code area 54466. The Survey maps it on the Pittsville quadrangle.

Veedum within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Veedum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Other causes1
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
12 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY B FIRE
12 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPINE FIRE
22 August 2012Natural3.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTAG ALDER FIRE
19 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDEAD TREE
22 June 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Veedum in 1 storm report in 2010: 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
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Veedum-A brief tornado was reported by the public and confirmed by local emergency management about five miles west of Pittsville. A dozen trees were knocked down and several large tree limbs fell onto a house (DI 1, DOD 5). Wind speed was estimated at 80 mph.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Pittsville3.3 miles13
Dexterville4.0 miles13
Babcock8.2 miles13
Cranmoor9.9 miles13
Bethel10.1 miles11
Walker10.4 miles8
Arpin11.6 miles11
Lindsey12.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1576053. 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.

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.