Heffron, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rose town. It lies in ZIP code area 54984. The Survey maps it on the Wautoma NE quadrangle. It stands 1,171 feet above sea level.

Heffron within Waushara County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Wautoma quadrangle1:48000
1968 USGS Wautoma quadrangle1:24000
1968 USGS Wautoma NE quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Heffron between 1992 and 2019, burning about 352 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Other causes	2
Fireworks	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
5 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	CHRISTIE
19 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 September 2013	Natural	20 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BITTNER FOREST FIRE
17 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HIGHWAY P

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Wild Rose

Every fire recorded in Waushara 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
Wild Rose	5.4 miles	8
Plainfield	10.1 miles	7
Mount Morris	10.8 miles	8
Saxeville	11.2 miles	8
Wautoma	11.7 miles	6
Silver Lake	13.7 miles	8
Pine River	13.7 miles	8
Hancock	13.8 miles	7

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 Heffron	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5698250	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 1577635. 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.