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Mill Creek, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marshall town. It lies in ZIP code area 53581. It lies near Laque Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Sabin quadrangle. It stands 791 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mill Creek within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Mill Creek (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 194 acres in total. 2 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 burning30
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2013Debris and open burning6.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCO E AND ENGLISH RIDGE
24 August 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2012Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLIGHTNING FIRE
8 June 1999Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1992Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Mill Creek (historical): 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bert Ray QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bosstown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ewing QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Huth QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Motts QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Muldowney QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wilson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Richland 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
Sabin3.2 miles10
Bosstown3.3 miles10
McGrew (historical)3.5 miles12
Boaz4.0 miles10
Sylvan4.9 miles10
Ashford (historical)5.1 miles12
Five Points5.2 miles10
Jimtown5.3 miles10

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 Mill Creek (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6858226The 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 1958390. 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.