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Minersville, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ashland town. It lies in ZIP code area 54855. It stands on Trout Brook. The Survey maps it on the Marengo quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Minersville within Ashland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Minersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82 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
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Other causes6
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 August 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMAIN STREET
15 August 2007Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2012Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPELOTO
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY C
11 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2007Naturalunder 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

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Minersville: 7 occurrences, 4 producers, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. 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
Ashland County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ashland County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dale Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Dales PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Krause Rd Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ralph Hakala Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Roffers Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Russell Niemi Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Silver Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Silver Creek Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

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
North York1.4 miles11
Marengo1.5 miles11
High Bridge3.5 miles9
Sanborn6.2 miles11
Foster Junction8.1 miles12
Mellen9.2 miles12
White River9.3 miles11
White City9.4 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 MinersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6864455The 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 1569552. 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.