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Ingersoll, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Elderon town. The Survey maps it on the Mission Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,260 feet above sea level.

Ingersoll within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Ingersoll between 1992 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Other causes2

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 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIREWORKS PARTY
24 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHALF MILE
10 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKILDEER FIRE
30 June 2000Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Ingersoll: 10 past producers, 7 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Anton Buss Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brinkman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Comet Creek Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Eland Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Eland Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elderon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elm Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hatley Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hatley Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hatley Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ingersoll in 2 storm reports in 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Thunderstorm WindIngersoll$211,000Downburst winds from a thunderstorm caused a barn to collapse, killing or severely injuring 50 head of milking cattle. Part of the milking parlor also collapsed. A flat-bed trailer with irrigation piping was moved about 20 feet, with some of the piping blown over an adjacent residence and into a stand of pine trees. Less than a mile to the east the metal roof of a 25 foot by 25 foot shed was blown about 30 yards into an adjacent corn field.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindIngersoll-Thunderstorm winds downed large trees on County Highway II near State Highway 49.

Every storm 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
Norrie2.3 miles9
Elderon4.8 miles7
Hatley4.8 miles9
Pike Lake5.3 miles9
Bevent8.9 miles9
Ringle9.2 miles9
Galloway9.6 miles7
Holt9.9 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 IngersollAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714475The 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 1876701. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.