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Woodboro, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Woodboro town. It lies in ZIP code area 54501. It lies near Big Island. The Survey maps it on the Woodboro quadrangle. It stands 1,608 feet above sea level.

Woodboro within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Woodboro between 1992 and 2019, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning31
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
11 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyTOMAHWK C.
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesVELVET LAKE FIRE
11 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida 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 Woodboro: 3 occurrences, 3 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
Four Mile Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Fox Ranch Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hat Rapids Flowage Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hat Rapids Road Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Heal Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Velvet Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodboro in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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 2007Thunderstorm WindWoodboro$10,000Straight-line thunderstorm winds downed trees on CR-L near the Lincoln County line and damaged a store in the township of Woodboro. Time of event is approximate.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWoodboro$1,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWoodboro-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Woodboro. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWoodboro-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Woodboro. The time of this event was estimated based on radar data.
June 2007HailWoodboro-no account filed
October 2004Thunderstorm WindWoodboro-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindWoodboro-no account filed
April 2002HailWoodboro-no account filed
April 2002Tornado (F0)Woodboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Crescent Corner4.3 miles9
Manson (historical)6.3 miles12
Newbold6.7 miles12
Harshaw6.7 miles12
Rhinelander7.8 miles9
McNaughton8.6 miles12
Goodnow8.8 miles12
Roosevelt13.4 miles9

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 WoodboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8032386The 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 1576981. 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.