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Moon, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Mosinee town. The Survey maps it on the Halder quadrangle. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Moon within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Moon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 52 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism8
Other causes7
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
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
18 September 2004Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNOT DEPOT
6 May 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesANGLERS LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Moon: 9 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. 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
Edgewood Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mosinee Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Mosinee Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Mosinee Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Roszewski Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sandy Lane Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ben Gottschalk Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Charneski PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Joseph Banz Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ladick & Belanger QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moon in 2 storm reports in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2019Tornado (EF1)Moon$25,000A tornado produced damage to dozens of trees (DI 28, DOD 2,3,4), damaged the roof of an outbuilding (DI 1, DOD 4), and demolished an old barn (DI 1, DOD 6) in the town of Knowlton. Peak winds were estimated near 90 mph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMoon-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Marathon County. County Road O was impassable four miles south of Moon due to fallen trees.

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
Mosinee4.7 miles10
Halder4.8 miles7
Knowlton6.8 miles8
Dancy7.0 miles8
Peplin9.0 miles10
Evergreen9.3 miles10
Rangeline9.5 miles5
Rocky Corners10.3 miles7

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 MoonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6907409The 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 1569688. 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.