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Iron Belt, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Knight town. It lies in ZIP code area 54536. The Survey maps it on the Iron Belt quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,555 feet above sea level.

Iron Belt within Iron County

Population over time

2 figures

Iron Belt fell from 173 to 158 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010173
2020158-15 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Iron Belt between 1995 and 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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 burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 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 Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Iron Belt: 15 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Nickel, Manganese, 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
Montreal MineManganese, IronPast Producer1886
Pence MineIron, NickelPast Producer1888, 1912
Montreal Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Potato River Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Potato River Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Atlantic MineIronPast Producer1848, 1887, 1913
Atlantic MineIronPast Producer1887
Hennepin-SnyderIronPast Producer1888
Hennepin-Snyder MineIronPast Producer1848, 1888, 1906
Iron Belt MineIronPast Producer1848, 1888, 1912

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iron Belt in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 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 2016Thunderstorm WindIron Belt-There were many trees and power lines down in Iron Belt.

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Hoyt1.5 miles11
Pence3.0 miles11
Montreal4.6 miles14
Upson4.9 miles11
Gile5.6 miles14
Kimball5.7 miles11
Germania5.9 miles14
Orva6.1 miles14

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 Iron BeltAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6072334The 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 1566963. 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.