Logan, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Breed town. It lies in ZIP code area 54174. The Survey maps it on the Breed quadrangle. It stands 850 feet above sea level.

Logan within Oconto 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.

1942 USGS Breed quadrangle1:48000
1952 USGS Mountain quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Breed quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Wabeno quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Logan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 166 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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	29
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	3
Other causes	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	29 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HWY 32 AND WILLOW RD. FIRE
26 July 2000	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.8 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto 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
Breed	1.6 miles	9
Bonita	3.9 miles	9
Hayes	6.1 miles	6
Suring	6.2 miles	6
Frostville	6.9 miles	9
Mountain	7.8 miles	11
Hickory Corners	9.6 miles	9
Hintz	11.8 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 Logan	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6666907	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 1843981. 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.