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Hunting, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grant town. It lies in ZIP code area 54486. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle.

Hunting within Shawano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Hunting between 1992 and 2019, burning about 101 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMEISNER RD FIRE
5 May 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMAPLE LANE
5 May 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawano County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Hunting: 9 past producers, 6 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Meisner Road Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Donald Mielke Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Earl Mielke Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gollnow Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Haase Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Island Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kersten Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Kersten Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kussmann Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Laatsch Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Shawano 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
Split Rock3.2 miles7
Caroline5.0 miles8
Tigerton6.3 miles7
Leopolis8.9 miles7
Five Corners9.6 miles7
Tilleda9.7 miles7
Pella9.8 miles8
Whitcomb10.4 miles7

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 HuntingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12833526The 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 1577651. 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.