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McNaughton, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Newbold town. It lies in ZIP code area 54501. The Survey maps it on the McNaughton quadrangle. It stands 1,572 feet above sea level.

McNaughton within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of McNaughton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony6
Other causes5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 1999Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida 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 McNaughton: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them 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
Beaver Lake Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Black Lake Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Fawn Lake Road Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Newbold Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Newbold Creek Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Newbold Spring Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Silverbass Lake Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Two Sisters Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Two Sisters Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida 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
Newbold3.0 miles12
Lake Tomahawk6.2 miles12
Sunflower7.1 miles12
Goodnow7.2 miles12
Harshaw7.5 miles12
Woodboro8.6 miles12
Rhinelander9.6 miles9
Hazelhurst10.9 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 McNaughtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6802492The 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 1577718. 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.