March Rapids, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Eau Pleine town. The Survey maps it on the Little Rose quadrangle. It stands 1,280 feet above sea level.

March Rapids within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1902 USGS Marathon quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Stratford quadrangle1:48000
1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Stratford quadrangle1:62500
1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Little Rose quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Marshfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of March Rapids between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
25 March 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2032

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of March Rapids: 14 occurrences, 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
John Serve Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
March Rapids Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
March Rapids Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rock Creek Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Stratford Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Arthur Lau Granite Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Elm Road Granite Quarry #1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Equity Street Granite Deposit #1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Equity Street Granite Deposit #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Equity Street Granite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marathon 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
Little Rose	3.2 miles	12
Weber	3.5 miles	12
Staadts (historical)	4.8 miles	12
Stratford	4.8 miles	12
Cherokee	5.4 miles	12
Swan	6.2 miles	12
McMillan	7.1 miles	11
Fenwood	7.3 miles	12

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 March Rapids	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6756861	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 1569022. 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.