BlockNorth Star, Wisconsin
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sharon town. It lies in ZIP code area 54423. The Survey maps it on the Polonia quadrangle. It stands 1,214 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1955 USGS Rosholt quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Polonia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
73 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of North Star between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62 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 burning | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | ZIMMERMAN FIRE |
| 21 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 August 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 July 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 July 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | YARDMAN |
| 12 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HAMILTON ROAD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 North Star | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7056829 | 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 1577755. 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.