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Morrison, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Morrison town. It lies in ZIP code area 54126. The Survey maps it on the Morrison quadrangle. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Morrison within Brown 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

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Morrison between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources48
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources40
22 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources25
18 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources28
16 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources39
11 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources13
27 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources28
24 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Morrison: 1 producer. All of them 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
Daanen and JanssenStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrison in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 1 hail, 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
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Morrison-A weak tornado caused minor tree damage (DI 27, DOD 1 and 2).
July 2012HailMorrison-Penny size hail fell in Morrison.

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Lark2.3 miles9
Wayside3.6 miles9
Shirley4.6 miles9
Greenleaf5.8 miles8
Askeaton6.8 miles8
Glenmore6.8 miles10
Kolb8.6 miles10
Langes Corners9.0 miles9

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 MorrisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6914001The 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 1569754. 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.