Mount View, Wisconsin

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.

• 1899 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:125000
• 1902 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:48000
• 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Wausau West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Wausau West quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Wausau city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

History of Marathon County, Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, published 1913 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Mount View between 1994 and 2020, burning about 19 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• East Hill
• Franklin Hill
• Wausau
• Wausau Junction
• Rib Mountain
• Brokaw

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Mount View: 9 past producers, 7 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, REE, Thorium, Zirconium, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Hafnium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Marathon County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577737. 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.