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Gills Landing, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Weyauwega town. It lies in ZIP code area 54983. It stands on Waupaca River. The Survey maps it on the Weyauwega quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Gills Landing within Waupaca 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.

In the county-history sources

261 words on this township

History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, published 1890 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Weyauwega Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Weyauwega Town - 261 words.

Fires near this place

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Gills Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning44
Equipment and vehicle use31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Other causes2

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 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWEGA HILL FIRE
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAULING
18 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2012Natural2.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSLOUGH RD.
1 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 96
6 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBOO BOO
6 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesEAST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca 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
Red Banks2.2 miles8
Evanswood2.7 miles7
Weyauwega3.0 miles7
Fremont3.1 miles8
Shaw Landing5.9 miles8
North Readfield6.1 miles8
Hatton (historical)6.3 miles7
Readfield6.4 miles8

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 Gills LandingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5562432The 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 1577611. 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.