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Coolidge, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fifield town. It lies in ZIP code area 54524. The Survey maps it on the Priest Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,503 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Coolidge within Price County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Coolidge (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 49 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning16
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
14 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDEBOTH FIRE
10 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2006Debris and open burning1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesVAIL FIRE
29 June 2010Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSEVERT FIRE
25 June 2009Debris and open burning1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJOHNSON FIRE
21 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE ROCK
9 May 1992Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Coolidge (historical): 5 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
Chada Road Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chada Road Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chada Road Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Coolidge Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Old 13 Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Sailor Creek Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Price 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
Fifield4.8 miles11
Lugerville5.8 miles10
Phillips7.9 miles10
Park Falls8.7 miles11
Lymantown8.8 miles11
Kaiser (historical)10.2 miles9
Cranberry Lake12.3 miles10
Kennedy14.9 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Coolidge (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5167455The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1840272. 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.