BlockAnchorage, Wisconsin
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Waumandee town. It lies in ZIP code area 54622. It lies near Yaeger Valley. The Survey maps it on the Cream quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1932 USGS Alma quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Alma quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Cream quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Winona quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,901 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Waumandee Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Waumandee Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Anchorage (historical) in 2018, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 14 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 36 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Anchorage (historical): 18 occurrences, 16 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rotering Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Buffalo City Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Cochrane Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Foegen Road Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Irish Valley Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Plain View Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Blank Hill Rd Limestone Deposit #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Blank Hill Rd Limestone Deposit #2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Blank Hill Rd Limestone Deposit #3 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Canada Ridge Sandstone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cream | 3.4 miles | 19 | |
| Waumandee | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Cochrane | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Herold | 5.2 miles | 19 | |
| Czechville | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Buffalo City | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Montana | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Praag | 7.6 miles | 19 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1837495. 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.