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Mason, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Mason Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54856. The Survey maps it on the Mason quadrangle. 101 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Mason within Bayfield County

Population over time

2 figures

Mason grew from 93 to 101 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201093
2020101+8 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Mason between 1992 and 2019, burning about 94 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
23 July 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 63
6 May 1992Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1992Debris and open burning1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPETERS CHAINSAW FIRE
3 May 1992Misuse of fire by a minor15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 May 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bayfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mason: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Harlow Detle Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
L. Olson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mason Township Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mildred Westbeg Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Nels Olson Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bayfield County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mason in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2010HailMason$2,000A few trees were blown down, in addition to the hail.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMason-Numerous trees were downed or broken about 15 feet above ground level.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMason-A personal weather station mounted 10 feet above ground level recorded a gust of 63 mph.
June 2018Flash FloodMason-White River Park in Mason was flooded due to overflow from the White River Flowage.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMason-Trees were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMason-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bayfield 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
Benoit4.7 miles12
Grand View5.3 miles9
Sutherland6.2 miles11
Ino9.1 miles13
Moquah9.4 miles12
Pike River9.7 miles11
Ashland Junction10.7 miles13
Delta11.4 miles12

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 MasonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2049851The 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 1569112. 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.