BlockBefore

Galloway, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Franzen town. The Survey maps it on the Rosholt quadrangle. It stands 1,171 feet above sea level.

Galloway within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Galloway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
4 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNORSKE ROAD FIRE
22 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY I POWERLINE FIRE
5 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPLOWLINE
5 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBRICCO RD.
24 May 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROUNDUP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Galloway: 12 occurrences, 4 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
Comet Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Elderon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Galloway Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Harry Kulas Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Holt Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
John Bushman Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
John Bushman Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
John Meronk Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lorbiecki Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Mcdevitt Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Holt3.3 miles7
Elderon5.0 miles7
Bevent7.7 miles9
Shantytown8.6 miles7
Pike Lake8.8 miles9
Ingersoll9.6 miles9
Little Eau Claire11.0 miles9
Norrie11.9 miles9

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 GallowayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5519169The 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 1565385. 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.