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Imalone, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Thornapple town. It lies in ZIP code area 54848. The Survey maps it on the Crane quadrangle. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

Imalone within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

64 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Imalone between 1994 and 2018, burning about 93 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning24
Equipment and vehicle use16
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural2
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
15 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 1998Debris and open burning2.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2013Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTHORNAPPLE RD. FIRE
25 July 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 2004Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk 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 Imalone: 12 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead. 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
Flambeau MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, LeadProducer1968, 1993
Buff Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cathedral Point Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Clear Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Clear Creek Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
High Range Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Imalone Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Imalone Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
L. Thornapple River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Meandering Hills Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rusk 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
Murry3.6 miles8
Bruce7.0 miles7
Apollonia8.1 miles7
Ladysmith9.0 miles7
Port Arthur9.2 miles7
Thornapple9.8 miles7
Flambeau Estates11.3 miles7
Rivers Edge12.3 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 ImaloneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6003022The 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 1577655. 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.