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Holts Landing, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Agenda town. It lies in ZIP code area 54514. It stands on Bosner Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hay Creek Flowage quadrangle. It stands 1,545 feet above sea level.

Holts Landing within Ashland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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 Holts Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 46 acres in total. None 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestJR COMMANDER
9 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHOFFMAN LAKE FIRE
8 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestHOFFMAN
6 May 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Holts Landing: 7 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Ford LucasIronUnknownMagnetite
Alockhouse Lake Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ashland County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ashland County Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blockhouse Lake Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blockhouse Lake Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boch Rd Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
John Rybak Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Old 182 Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Park Falls Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ashland 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
Petes Landing3.6 miles10
Butternut6.3 miles10
Peeksville10.4 miles9
Glidden14.0 miles10
Shanagolden15.9 miles11
Morse20.0 miles10
Cayuga23.1 miles10
Tannery Town26.1 miles12

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 Holts LandingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5884734The 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 1577646. 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.