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McAllister, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Wagner town. It lies in ZIP code area 54177. The Survey maps it on the McAllister quadrangle. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

McAllister within Marinette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

70 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of McAllister between 1993 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Other causes6
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
5 September 2001Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2011Debris and open burning1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marinette County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of McAllister: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Braeger Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Beetle Spot Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boonies Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bridge Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cow Chip Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Edwards Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
High Ridge Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Krueger Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Packard Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marinette 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
Wagner1.9 miles8
Packard2.4 miles8
Goll3.6 miles9
Miles6.9 miles9
Rubys Corner10.3 miles9
Walsh10.4 miles10
Porterfield12.5 miles10
Wausaukee12.6 miles9

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 McAllisterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6799915The 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 1569158. 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.