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Granite Heights, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Texas town. The Survey maps it on the Brokaw quadrangle. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.

Granite Heights within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Granite Heights between 1992 and 2017, burning about 37 acres in total. 1 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 burning23
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY K FIRE
30 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY A FIRE
15 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROMAN CANDLE FIRE
25 July 1998Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2002Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Granite Heights: 11 occurrences, 11 past producers, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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
Anderson Brothers and Johnson Co.GranitePast Producer
Cold Spring Wausau QuarryGraniteProducer
Red Granite QuarryGraniteProducer
Rib Mountain QuarryGraniteProducer
Ruby Red QuarryGraniteProducer
Krueger Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Lincoln Drive Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Minnesota Mining & Mfg Co-GreystoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Naugart Drive Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Silver Creek Granite Deposit #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

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
Brokaw2.4 miles12
Maine3.5 miles12
Taegesville4.7 miles12
Franklin Hill6.8 miles12
East Hill6.9 miles12
Wausau7.0 miles12
Nutterville7.1 miles12
Naugart8.0 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 Granite HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5595865The 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 1565732. 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.