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Murry, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Murry town. It lies in ZIP code area 54835. It stands on Big Weirgor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crane quadrangle. It stands 1,168 feet above sea level.

Murry within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Murry between 1992 and 2019, burning about 108 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 1998Debris and open burning2.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2013Debris and open burning2.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAMILTON DEBRIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Murry: 8 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buff Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cathedral Point Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Clear Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Clear Creek Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Exeland Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Imalone Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Imalone Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
L. Thornapple River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Pipeline Site Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
River Rapids Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murry in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2010Thunderstorm WindMurry-Thunderstorm winds caused a 12 inch diameter tree branch to be blown down.

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Imalone3.6 miles8
Bruce10.6 miles7
Ladysmith10.8 miles7
Apollonia11.7 miles7
Port Arthur12.0 miles7
Thornapple13.2 miles7
Tony13.7 miles8
Flambeau Estates14.7 miles7

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 MurryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6939654The 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 1577739. 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.