Interwald, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Greenwood town. It lies in ZIP code area 54470. It stands on East Lemke Creek. The Survey maps it on the Goodrich quadrangle. It stands 1,437 feet above sea level.

Interwald within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1902 USGS Marathon quadrangle1:125000
1951 USGS Athens quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Goodrich quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Medford quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Interwald between 1992 and 2018, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Other causes	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
25 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 May 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 May 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SUNSHINE
6 April 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LEMKE CREEK RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Interwald: 2 past producers. None of them 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Coffee Creek Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Mink Creek Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Taylor 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
Goodrich	5.4 miles	9
Rib Lake	8.1 miles	8
Chelsea	11.1 miles	10
Whittlesey	11.2 miles	6
Queenstown	12.7 miles	10
Westboro	13.1 miles	10
Medford	13.2 miles	6
Little Black	13.9 miles	6

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 Interwald	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6057439	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 1577657. 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.