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Callon, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Weston Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54476. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wausau East quadrangle.

Callon within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Callon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 80 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 August 1994Recreation and ceremony16 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRIVER
21 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIVE POUND
2 June 2018Natural1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources206
16 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Callon: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Callon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
George Will Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Kelly Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Silver Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marathon 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
Weston2.3 miles12
Kelly3.2 miles12
Ringle4.2 miles9
Schofield5.3 miles12
Rothschild6.2 miles12
Wausau Junction6.3 miles12
Kronenwetter6.9 miles10
East Hill7.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562520. 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.