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Orange Mill, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Orange town. It lies in ZIP code area 54618. It stands on Fountain Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Lisbon North quadrangle. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Orange Mill within Juneau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Orange Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use30
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesVOLK FIRE
2 August 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBLACK HIGHWAY
24 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesORANGE
13 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juneau 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
Camp Douglas2.5 miles13
Hustler2.6 miles13
Lone Rock3.1 miles12
New Lisbon3.9 miles12
Kelly8.3 miles12
Cutler8.6 miles14
Cloverdale9.0 miles14
Lindina10.8 miles12

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 Orange MillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7099671The 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 1570847. 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.