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Waino, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Brule town. It lies in ZIP code area 54820. The Survey maps it on the Oulu quadrangle. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Waino within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

73 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Waino between 1993 and 2020, burning about 113 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use26
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Other causes2
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
8 September 1998Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2007Arson/incendiarism5.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHOOVER FIRE
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Recreation and ceremony12 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Waino: 4 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Copper, Copper, Lead. 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 Along Anderson CLead, CopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near WainoCopper, LeadOccurrence
Hokkinen Rd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
PercivalCopperUnknownCopper
South Slope PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Prospect Near WainoCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waino in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 1 hail, 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 2023Thunderstorm WindWaino$5,000Photos were received showing three large and healthy trees that were uprooted and possibly snapped. A trailer was also blown over onto its side.
July 2011HailWaino-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Bellwood5.8 miles12
Brule6.0 miles10
Cloverland6.2 miles12
Blueberry6.5 miles12
Maple8.5 miles12
Winneboujou8.6 miles10
Lake Nebagamon10.9 miles12
Poplar12.6 miles8

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 WainoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7960176The 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 1576147. 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.