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Amnicon Falls, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Amnicon town. It lies in ZIP code area 54874. The Survey maps it on the South Range quadrangle.

Amnicon Falls within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Amnicon Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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
Railroad operations and maintenance51
Equipment and vehicle use38
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony11
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks3
Other causes2

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
9 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 53-2
8 September 1998Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLAMAR BILLBOARD
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 53 -1
11 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Amnicon Falls: 11 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Lead. 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
Chippewa Copper-Nickel MineCopper, ZincOccurrence
Chippewa Copper-Nickel MineNickel, Silver, Gold, CopperProspect
Unnamed Prospect Near Flannagan FCopper, LeadOccurrence
Amnicon Falls Station QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Flannagan Fire Tower QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
George Larson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Robert Missine QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Sam Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
AminiconCopperUnknownChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite
CatlinCopperUnknownCopper

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Rockmont1.6 miles8
Middle River2.5 miles8
Wentworth2.9 miles8
Cutter4.2 miles9
Hines4.3 miles8
South Range5.0 miles8
Poplar5.0 miles8
Parkland6.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577490. 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.