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Meehan, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Plover town. It lies in ZIP code area 54494. The Survey maps it on the Meehan quadrangle. It stands 1,066 feet above sea level.

Meehan within Portage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Meehan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use55
Railroad operations and maintenance36
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism8
Fireworks4
Other causes3
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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH SHORE CLEARING FIRE
5 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBIRON DR EAST
2 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage 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
Plover5.7 miles7
Whiting6.1 miles7
Kellner6.7 miles6
Coddington6.9 miles7
Stevens Point7.2 miles9
Mill Creek Community7.4 miles7
Rocky Run7.5 miles7
Park Ridge7.9 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 MeehanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714539The 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 1569314. 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.