Alban, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Alban town. It lies in ZIP code area 54473. The Survey maps it on the Rosholt quadrangle.

Alban within Portage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rosholt quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Rosholt quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Alban between 1992 and 2018, burning about 72 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 burning	23
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
10 August 2001	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.1 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	NORSKE ROAD FIRE
4 July 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 July 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.4 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 July 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HAMILTON ROAD FIRE
1 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Alban: 3 occurrences. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Holt Creek Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Moss Lake Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Nellesen Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Portage 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rosholt	1.3 miles	7
Peru	4.6 miles	7
Garfield	4.6 miles	7
Little Waupon	6.3 miles	7
North Star	7.3 miles	7
Polonia	7.9 miles	7
New Hope	8.6 miles	7
Nelsonville	9.3 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1560725. 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.