BlockEagle Point, Wisconsin
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Eagle Point town. It lies in ZIP code area 54729. The Survey maps it on the Bloomer quadrangle. It stands 971 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1949 USGS Bloomer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Bloomer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Bloomer quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Bloomer quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
25 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Point between 1993 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 5619 |
| 27 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | ANGRY FORESTER FIRE |
| 18 July 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | POWERLINE SPRUCE |
| 4 May 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 14 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 May 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 May 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 May 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 May 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Eagle Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5325201 | The 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 1577582. 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.