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Middleport, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1989. It lies in ZIP code area 54850. The Survey maps it on the Bayfield quadrangle. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Middleport within Ashland County

On record in Middleport

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Middleport between 1992 and 2018, burning about 7 acres in total. None 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWINSTON PROPERTY
5 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 1995Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Middleport: 1 past producer. 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
F. L. Wolfe Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ashland 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
La Pointe0.6 miles10
Old Fort1.1 miles10
Odanah12.1 miles11
Ashland13.5 miles13
White River16.6 miles11
Birch19.4 miles11
Marengo24.1 miles11
Sanborn24.3 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 MiddleportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6841831The 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 1838432. 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.