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Mosling, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Underhill town. It lies in ZIP code area 54124. The Survey maps it on the Krakow quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Mosling within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Mosling between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning24
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
5 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKLAUS ROAD
9 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY H HAY BAILER FIRE
4 July 2002Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2009Equipment 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 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Mosling: 8 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 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
Bahr Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Druckery PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Flat Rock Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gillett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holy Hill Road Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Holy Hill Road Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Holy Hill Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Klatt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lily Pond Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pensaukee Lakes Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working 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
Underhill0.9 miles6
Gillett3.6 miles6
Hintz3.9 miles6
Suring9.0 miles6
Hayes9.5 miles6
Frostville9.7 miles9
Kelly Brook10.3 miles8
Morgan10.8 miles8

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 MoslingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714553The 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 1569773. 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.