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McMillan, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in McMillan town. It lies in ZIP code area 54449. The Survey maps it on the Marshfield quadrangle. It stands 1,270 feet above sea level.

McMillan within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of McMillan between 1994 and 2020, burning about 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18012
25 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2004849
25 March 1994Misuse of fire by a minor5.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2012045
29 December 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2012241
6 November 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2011289
4 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2032

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of McMillan: 8 past producers, 5 occurrences. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Stadt Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arthur Lau Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Day Avenue Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Drake Avenue Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
K Schill Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Little Rose Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Macarthur Street Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
March Rapids Ave Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Park Street Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ross Blott Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Staadts (historical)3.4 miles12
Mann4.1 miles11
Little Rose4.1 miles12
Stratford6.0 miles12
Weber6.7 miles12
March Rapids7.1 miles12
Spencer7.1 miles11
Rozellville7.4 miles11

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 McMillanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6802356The 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 1844192. 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.