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Wentworth, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Amnicon town. It lies in ZIP code area 54874. The Survey maps it on the Poplar quadrangle. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Wentworth within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Wentworth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
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 September 1998Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLAMAR BILLBOARD
29 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSKUNK FIRE
3 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWEIGH STATION SPOTS
23 July 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMOWER FIRE
12 July 1998Fireworksunder 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

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Wentworth: 12 occurrences, 9 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Zinc. 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
Chippewa Copper-Nickel MineNickel, Silver, Gold, CopperProspect
Chippewa Copper-Nickel MineCopper, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Lakeside CemetaryCopper, ZincOccurrence
Amnicon Falls Station QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Flannagan Fire Tower QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
North WisconsinCopperUnknownCopper
Robert Missine QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Sam Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Prospect Near Lakeside CeCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near RockmontCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wentworth in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 hail. 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 2021HailWentworth-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
Poplar2.3 miles8
Amnicon Falls2.9 miles8
Rockmont4.0 miles8
Middle River4.1 miles8
Dobie5.3 miles8
Hines5.5 miles8
Maple6.2 miles12
Hawthorne6.8 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 WentworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7982994The 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 1576430. 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.