Benson, Wisconsin

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.

• 1950 USGS Rush City quadrangle1:48000
• 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Rush City quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Randall quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Grantsburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Benson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 490 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Randall
• Lind
• Oakland
• Trade River
• Webster
• Yellow Lake

Every fire recorded in Burnett County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Benson: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.

Every working recorded in Burnett County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577514. 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.