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Milan, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Johnson town. The Survey maps it on the Milan quadrangle. It stands 1,444 feet above sea level.

Milan within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Milan between 1995 and 2018, burning about 24 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
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
24 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 2018Debris and open burning12 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources706
10 May 2018Debris and open burning11 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBERN
15 November 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 October 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Milan: 12 occurrences, 11 past producers. 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
Ellingson Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Francis Melvin Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gierl Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kunze Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Morris Gierl Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Popple Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Washington Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Apfelbeck Gneiss DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Branching Waters Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Denzine Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milan in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMilan-Thunderstorm winds snapped tree limbs near Milan.
May 2012Funnel CloudMilan-A funnel cloud was spotted in western Marathon County.
June 2012HailMilan-Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail and a wind gust to 42 mph east of Abbotsford.

Every storm 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
Corinth2.6 miles8
Wuertsburg4.5 miles12
Swan4.7 miles12
Cherokee5.8 miles12
Athens6.6 miles9
Schnappsville8.2 miles12
March Rapids9.6 miles12
Wien9.9 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 MilanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6850477The 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 1569457. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.