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The following 62 pages use this file: Baldwin, Wisconsin; Baldwin (town), Wisconsin; Boardman, Wisconsin; Burkhardt, Wisconsin; Cady, Wisconsin; Cedar Lake (St. Croix ...
The Meridian Boundary Fire burned 8,586 acres near Grayling, Michigan in 2010.. The U.S. state of Michigan has been the site of several major wildfires.The worst of these were in the lumbering era of the late-1800s when lumbering practices permitted the buildup of large slash piles and altered forest growth patterns which may have contributed to size of the wildfires.
While wildfires have primarily been associated with western states, including massive fires in California in 2020 or in Oregon last year, an analysis of FEMA data reveals significant fire risks in ...
St. Croix County of 1840 and today. St. Croix County was created on August 3, 1840, [5] by the legislature of the Wisconsin Territory. It was named after the river on its western border. [6] Sources vary on the name's origin. The St. Croix River may have been named after an explorer named St. Croix who drowned at the river's mouth in the late ...
The Wisconsin side covers 1,330 acres (5.4 km 2), and the Minnesota side covers 298 acres (1.21 km 2). The parks straddle the Dalles of the St. Croix River, a deep basalt gorge. [56] [57] Wyalusing State Park is located at the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers, and covers 2,628 acres (10.64 km 2). [58] [59]
The Great Michigan Fire was a series of simultaneous forest fires in the state of Michigan in the United States in 1871. [1] They were possibly caused (or at least reinforced) by the same winds that fanned the Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire and the Port Huron Fire; some believe lightning or even meteor showers may have started the fires. [2]
Hammond is a village in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,922 at the 2010 census. The village is within the Town of Hammond. Hammond was home to the Running of the Llamas. [6]
The Namekagon River issues from Lake Namakagon in southeastern Bayfield County and flows southwestwardly through Sawyer and Washburn counties, past Hayward, and northwestwardly into Burnett County, where it joins the St. Croix, 45 miles (72 km) south of the city of Superior. Near its mouth it collects the Totagatic River. [7]