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Ormsby, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Peck town. It lies in ZIP code area 54424. It stands on Sucker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bavaria quadrangle. It stands 1,539 feet above sea level.

Ormsby within Langlade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Ormsby between 1992 and 2017, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
18 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 1998Debris and open burning2.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2005Debris and open burning1.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Langlade County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ormsby: 6 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
Black Oak Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bluebell Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fosterling Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ormsby Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Reeves Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
River Grove School Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Langlade 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
Kempster5.1 miles10
Deerbrook5.4 miles9
Neva Corners6.2 miles9
Bavaria7.1 miles11
Koepenick7.2 miles10
Neva7.5 miles8
Summit Lake8.9 miles10
Antigo9.6 miles9

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 OrmsbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7103476The 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 1577760. 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.