Little Wolf, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Little Wolf town. It lies in ZIP code area 54949. It stands on South Branch Little Wolf River. The Survey maps it on the Manawa quadrangle. It stands 804 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Little Wolf within Waupaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Weyauwega quadrangle1:48000
1969 USGS Manawa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Little Wolf (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 215 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning	54
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	5
Fireworks	2
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	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
18 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2002	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HWY O FIRE
21 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 July 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Little Wolf (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Thiel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Waupaca 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
Royalton	2.1 miles	7
Manawa	3.1 miles	7
Baldwins Mill	3.9 miles	7
Ostrander	3.9 miles	7
Carmel	5.7 miles	7
Northport	5.8 miles	7
Shaw Landing	6.2 miles	8
Symco	6.3 miles	8

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 Little Wolf (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6652550	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 1850489. 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.