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Wooddale, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Edgewater town. It lies in ZIP code area 54817. It stands on Thirty-three Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edgewater quadrangle. It stands 1,335 feet above sea level.

Wooddale within Sawyer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

44 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Wooddale between 1993 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
13 September 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 June 2007Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSUNSET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Wooddale: 4 occurrences, 1 past producer. 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
Deer Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East Shore Drive Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East Shore Drive Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Knuteson Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Stoney Hill Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sawyer County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wooddale in 1 storm report in 2011: 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 2011HailWooddale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sawyer 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
Yarnell3.6 miles8
Edgewater4.0 miles8
Meteor5.1 miles8
Lemington7.7 miles9
Hauer8.1 miles8
Weirgor10.2 miles8
Couderay11.2 miles9
Exeland11.6 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 WooddaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8032556The 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 1576985. 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.