Glandon, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hewitt town. The Survey maps it on the Kalinke quadrangle. It stands 1,460 feet above sea level.

Glandon within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1899 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Doering quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Kalinke quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Merrill quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Glandon between 1992 and 2017, burning about 145 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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	14
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	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
23 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 June 1994	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 June 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 June 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PIT ROAD #7
7 May 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PIT ROAD #6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Kalinke	4.3 miles	11
Johnson	6.5 miles	11
Sunset	6.8 miles	11
Hogarty	7.6 miles	11
Snell	7.8 miles	11
Nutterville	7.9 miles	12
Granite Heights	11.4 miles	12
Brokaw	12.7 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 Glandon	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5566608	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 1577613. 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.