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Nashville, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Nashville town. It lies in ZIP code area 54520. The Survey maps it on the Nashville quadrangle. It stands 1,703 feet above sea level.

Nashville within Forest 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Nashville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism14
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes3
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
25 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPILE
9 July 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyIND SET RD
4 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyBALL DIAMOND
3 July 1995Fireworksunder an acreGreat Lakes Agency64
2 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Forest County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Nashville: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper. 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
Mole Lake ProspectZinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, GoldUnknown
Wolf River ProspectZinc, CopperUnknown
Forest County Highway Dept PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake Metonga Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lake Metonga Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mud Creek Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pergande Road Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pergande Road Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Steephill Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Twin Waters Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Forest 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
Mole Lake3.7 miles10
Crandon7.3 miles11
Keith (historical)7.6 miles11
Atkins9.8 miles9
Wisconsin Junction11.0 miles11
Argonne12.2 miles11
Woodlawn12.5 miles11
Hiles12.7 miles11

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 NashvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6966937The 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 1577741. 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.