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Anston, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Pittsfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 54313. It stands on Potter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oneida North quadrangle.

Anston within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Anston between 1994 and 2020, burning about 8 acres 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
29 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources81281
1 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources73260
7 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBULLDOG
6 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources59196
21 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesANOTHER DOG
20 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18077
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18061

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Anston: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
McKeefry & Sons,IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Peters Trucking Corporation PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anston in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAnston$3,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindAnston-Thunderstorm winds downed tree branches near Anston.

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Kunesh1.6 miles7
Mill Center2.0 miles7
Flintville3.0 miles6
Camelot Terrace4.3 miles6
Pittsfield4.7 miles7
Tremble5.0 miles6
Elm Tree Corners5.4 miles9
Cormier5.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1560889. 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.