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Markton, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wolf River town. It lies in ZIP code area 54491. It stands on Demster Creek. The Survey maps it on the Markton quadrangle. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Markton within Langlade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

In the county-history sources

1,407 words on this township

History of Langlade County, Wisconsin, from U. S. Government Survey to Present Time, with Biographical Sketches, published 1922 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Wolf River Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Wolf River Town - 1,407 words.

Fires near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Markton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMenominee TribeVALMET
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National Forestnot named
30 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestVAL ALSTINE RD
3 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestTRAXEL BLOWDOWN
23 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestW.T.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Langlade 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 Markton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Unnamed Copper MineCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Langlade County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Markton in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMarkton1 hurtThunderstorm winds snapped approximately 40 trees at Gardner Dam Boy Scouts Camp. One of the campers suffered a minor injury, a bump on the head, when a tree fell on a tent. The storms also downed numerous trees near the intersection of Highway 55 and County Road WW. The time of this event was estimated based on radar data.
May 2009HailMarkton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Langlade 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
White Lake5.8 miles8
Langlade5.9 miles9
Four Corners10.1 miles8
Hollister11.0 miles8
Elton12.2 miles8
Lily16.2 miles10
Polar17.5 miles8
Freeman18.0 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 MarktonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6771413The 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 1579814. 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.