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Malvern, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Pelican town. It lies in ZIP code area 54501. It stands on Haymeadow Creek. The Survey maps it on the George Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,575 feet above sea level.

Malvern within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Malvern between 1992 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks1

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
24 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRASMUSSON FIRE
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH SHORE
7 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Malvern: 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Zinc. 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
Pelican RiverCopper, ZincProspect1974
Pelican River Zn - Cu DepositCopper, ZincProspect1975
Faust Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Foss Lake Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
George Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Neptune Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oneida County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malvern 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 2011HailMalvern-One-half to one inch diameter hail fell several miles east of Rhinelander.

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Roosevelt4.7 miles9
Starks5.1 miles9
Rhinelander7.0 miles9
Monico7.2 miles8
Enterprise7.8 miles10
Gagen8.7 miles9
Pelican Lake9.8 miles10
Pratt Junction10.7 miles10

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 MalvernAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6745048The 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 1577714. 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.