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Wien, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Wien town. The Survey maps it on the Wien quadrangle. It stands 1,322 feet above sea level.

Wien within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Wien between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources90220
27 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources082718B
15 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources61518
1 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources60118
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources50518
30 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources051418B
11 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources51118
28 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources42819

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Wien: 10 occurrences, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Aspen Road Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Aspen Road Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bobwhite Lane Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Edgar Granite Deposit #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Edgar Granite Deposit #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Edgar Granite Deposit #3Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Edgar Granite Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Edgar Granite Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hanneman Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Pet Brook Granite Deposit #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wien in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 2021Flash FloodWien$10,000Thunderstorms dumped 2 to 4 inches of rain over central and southern Marathon County during the afternoon hours. This caused several roads to be closed due to flash flooding.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWien$10,000no account filed
July 2016FloodWien-Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused street flooding in the Edgar area.
September 2015Heavy RainWien-Heavy rain caused flooding in the vicinity of Highway 97 and CR-N, about 4 miles northeast of Fenwood.

Every storm recorded in Marathon 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
Fenwood2.5 miles12
Edgar3.7 miles7
Schnappsville4.9 miles12
Swan5.4 miles12
Wuertsburg5.6 miles12
Weber6.5 miles12
Poniatowski6.6 miles7
Bradley7.0 miles12

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 WienAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7999111The 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 1576399. 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.