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Morgan, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Morgan town. It lies in ZIP code area 54154. The Survey maps it on the Oconto Falls South quadrangle. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Morgan within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Morgan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 burning33
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
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
24 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2001Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2015Fireworks8.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMORGAN MARSH RD FIRE
30 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Morgan: 5 producers, 4 past producers, 3 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Peters QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Church Road Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Church Road Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Green Valley Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kraczwski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Krakow Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Paitz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pensaukee River Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Peters Trucking Co,Incperrets PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pierett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morgan in 2 storm reports in 2014: 1 lightning, 1 hail. The reports record 2 deaths. 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
August 2014LightningMorgan2 killedLightning from a thunderstorm that quickly developed west of Abrams killed two men working on a tree house at a home on County Road E in the Town of Morgan. The men were struck by lightning from the storm as it passed about two miles to their south. One of the men, a 27-year-old, was killed instantly. The other, a 31-year-old, was taken to a Green Bay hospital and died of his injuries on August 6th.
October 2014HailMorgan-Quarter size hail fell about 5 miles west of Abrams.

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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
Sampson2.0 miles8
Chase5.5 miles6
Oconto Falls6.1 miles8
Abrams7.0 miles8
South Chase7.5 miles6
Sobieski8.0 miles6
Stiles8.8 miles8
Sobieski Corners8.9 miles6

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 MorganAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6911535The 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 1569725. 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.