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Irvine, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chippewa Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 54729. It lies near Gravel Island. The Survey maps it on the Chippewa Falls quadrangle.

Irvine within Chippewa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

15 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Irvine between 2008 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2

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
31 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources204
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18159
21 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources181722
3 May 2009Equipment and vehicle use4.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001090
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18092
25 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000947
22 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Irvine: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. 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
Golden Creek Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chippewa County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Chippewa Cty. Hwy. Dept. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Colony PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hallie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit #7Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Psd Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Chippewa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irvine in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 hail. 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
May 2011HailIrvine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chippewa 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
Chippewa Falls1.6 miles15
Hallie3.0 miles15
Norma3.2 miles14
Lake Hallie3.6 miles15
Pinehurst5.2 miles15
Tilden5.7 miles9
Lake Wissota6.3 miles14
Howard6.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1566980. 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.