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Pennington, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Prentice town. It lies in ZIP code area 54556. The Survey maps it on the Pennington quadrangle. It stands 1,542 feet above sea level.

Pennington within Price County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Pennington between 1993 and 2020, burning about 58 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
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Debris and open burning5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
29 September 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY A
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMOONSHINE ALLEY
29 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUICK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Pennington: 13 occurrences, 11 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc. 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
Prentice East ProspectZincProspect
Aspen Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Beaver Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hay Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hay Creek Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hay Creek Gravel Deposit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hay Creek Gravel Deposit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hay Creek Gravel Pit # 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hay Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hay Creek Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Price 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
Prentice5.7 miles10
Worcester7.3 miles10
Catawba7.3 miles8
Cranberry Lake7.8 miles10
Ogema7.9 miles9
Kennan10.3 miles8
Phillips11.4 miles10
Dover14.5 miles11

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 PenningtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7163463The 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 1577766. 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.