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Moose Junction, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Dairyland town. It lies in ZIP code area 54830. The Survey maps it on the Moose Junction quadrangle. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.

Moose Junction within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Moose Junction between 1998 and 2013, burning about 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 July 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFOOD PLOT
15 May 2013Power generation/transmission/distribution14 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTOWER
21 April 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2006Debris and open burning4.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGNFD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Moose Junction: 7 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Zinc, Copper. 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
Unnamed Prospect Near Rock CreekZinc, CopperOccurrence
EmeteryCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Dairyland CCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Rock CreekCopperOccurrence
Kingsdale Rd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Repke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Toad Creek Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Toad Creek Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Upper Tamarack River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Dairyland4.9 miles8
Chaffey7.7 miles12
Cozy Corner9.5 miles8
Patzau14.5 miles12
Foxboro16.2 miles12
Four Corners17.5 miles12
Dedham17.7 miles12
Solon Springs18.2 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 Moose JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6908602The 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 1569710. 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.