Mount Morris, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mount Morris town. It lies in ZIP code area 54982. It stands on Mount Morris. The Survey maps it on the Spring Lake quadrangle. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

Mount Morris within Waushara 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Redgranite quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1961 USGS Spring Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

226 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Mount Morris between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 27 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 burning	93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Recreation and ceremony	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Smoking	7
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Other causes	2
Fireworks	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WASP ERADICATION
6 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ROCKET FIRE
28 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BADGER FIRE
22 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WHITE PINE
14 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	MILLER DB FIRE
9 August 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waushara County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mount Morris: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hendrickson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Kelly Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Waushara 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Silver Lake	4.5 miles	8
Wild Rose	5.4 miles	8
Wautoma	5.8 miles	6
Saxeville	5.9 miles	8
Spring Lake	6.5 miles	8
Pine River	6.6 miles	8
Lohrville	6.6 miles	8
Redgranite	7.0 miles	8

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 Mount Morris	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6922283	The 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 1569821. 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.