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Flambeau Estates, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Thornapple town. It lies in ZIP code area 54819. The Survey maps it on the Thornapple quadrangle.

Flambeau Estates within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Flambeau Estates between 1992 and 2018, burning about 66 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning27
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Other causes3
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
19 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY E DB
17 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2013Debris and open burning4.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRIVER ROAD
4 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDAM RD FIRE
2 June 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBOOT LAKE FIRE
10 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTUBBS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Flambeau Estates: 4 occurrences, 3 past producers. 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
Amocoy Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bruce Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chippewa River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Highway Edge Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Port Arthur Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Running Water Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Swift Current Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Rusk 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
Rivers Edge1.0 miles7
Thornapple1.5 miles7
Port Arthur4.2 miles7
Bruce5.5 miles7
Apollonia6.0 miles7
Ladysmith8.1 miles7
Island Lake9.2 miles7
Conrath9.7 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122566268The 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 2611837. 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.