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Pence, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Pence town. It lies in ZIP code area 54550. The Survey maps it on the Iron Belt quadrangle. 123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,631 feet above sea level.

Pence within Iron County

On record in Pence

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Pence fell from 131 to 123 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010131
2020123-8 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Pence between 1995 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
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
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesOFSTAD SKIDDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Pence: 17 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Nickel, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hurley Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Montreal MineManganese, IronPast Producer1886
Pence MineIron, NickelPast Producer1888, 1912
Flood Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Iron County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Montreal Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Peterson Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Atlantic MineIronPast Producer1848, 1887, 1913
Atlantic MineIronPast Producer1887
Cary MineIronPast Producer1848, 1886, 1950

Every working recorded in Iron 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
Hoyt1.5 miles11
Montreal1.6 miles14
Gile2.6 miles14
Germania3.0 miles14
Iron Belt3.0 miles11
Orva3.3 miles14
Kimball4.9 miles11
Hurley5.1 miles14

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 PenceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7162298The 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 1571168. 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.