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Cavour, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Caswell town. It lies in ZIP code area 54511. It stands on Gruman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newald quadrangle.

Cavour within Forest County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cavour between 1993 and 2018, burning about 21 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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
16 September 1998Debris and open burning12 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestHWY O
29 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestYCC
17 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCASWELL
10 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCAMP 3
6 June 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestARC
4 June 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestOLD 8 POWERLINE
26 June 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National Forestnot named
2 June 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestPESHTIGO RIVER II

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Forest County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Cavour: 5 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Gold. 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
CatwillowCopper, Zinc, Silver, GoldUnknown
Bills Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Birch Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Camp B Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gruman Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Haymeadow Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ross Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ross Lake Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Whiting Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Forest 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
Laona6.5 miles9
Newald7.2 miles10
Blackwell Junction8.4 miles9
Blackwell9.6 miles9
Armstrong Creek9.7 miles9
Popple River10.0 miles10
Padus11.1 miles11
Argonne13.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1578963. 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.