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Park Place Homes, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Superior City. It lies in ZIP code area 54880. The Survey maps it on the Superior quadrangle.

Park Place Homes within Douglas County

On record in Park Place Homes

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 10 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Park Place Homes between 1995 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Natural1

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 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Park Place Homes: 4 plants, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur. 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
(Facility) Superior Refinery--Murphy Oil CoSulfurPlant
Albany Crushing PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Albany Crushing Plant PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Arrowhead Blacktop CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mailing PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mclean DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Smith QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Superior Grinding PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Superior Lime PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Superior0.8 miles16
Central Park1.7 miles16
Billings Park1.7 miles16
East End2.4 miles16
South Superior4.2 miles16
Allouez4.7 miles16
Superior Village5.1 miles16
Riverview6.0 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122557772The 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 1846565. 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.