Kimball, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Kimball town. It lies in ZIP code area 54534. The Survey maps it on the Iron Belt quadrangle. It stands 1,260 feet above sea level.

Kimball within Iron County

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.

1940 USGS Upson quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1943 USGS Upson quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Iron Belt quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Ironwood quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Kimball between 1994 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 use	25
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
29 July 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	CENTER DRIVE POWER LINE
17 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SAND 2
17 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SAND 1
16 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HIGHWAY 2 P
4 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HIGHWAY 2 O
4 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HIGHWAY 2 M
4 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HIGHWAY 2 K

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Kimball: 6 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Iron, Nickel, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hurley Quarry #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Pence Mine	Iron, Nickel	Past Producer	1888, 1912
Hennepin-Snyder	Iron	Past Producer	1888
Hennepin-Snyder Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1848, 1888, 1906
Pence Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1888
Flood Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Lawrence Creek Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Montreal Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Valley Rd Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
William Vittone Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Orva	4.5 miles	14
Montreal	4.9 miles	14
Hoyt	4.9 miles	11
Pence	4.9 miles	11
Germania	5.3 miles	14
Gile	5.7 miles	14
Iron Belt	5.7 miles	11
Saxon	5.8 miles	11

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 Kimball	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6409757	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 1577677. 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.