Emmerich, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Berlin town. The Survey maps it on the Little Chicago quadrangle. It stands 1,421 feet above sea level.

Emmerich within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1902 USGS Marathon quadrangle1:125000
1951 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:48000
1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Little Chicago quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Merrill quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

62 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Emmerich between 1994 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
22 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	COMBINE 1
22 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	COMBINE 2
18 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	COUNTY A FIRE
10 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	2.4 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 July 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 July 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HIGHWAY F FIRE
19 July 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	4.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Emmerich: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Lincoln Drive Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Naugart	2.4 miles	9
Hamburg	3.0 miles	8
Little Chicago	3.1 miles	9
Taegesville	6.2 miles	12
Stettin (historical)	8.2 miles	7
Maine	8.6 miles	12
Rib Falls	9.2 miles	7
Granite Heights	10.3 miles	12

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 Emmerich	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5373446	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 1844104. 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.