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Petersville, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Iola town. It lies in ZIP code area 54945. It stands on Griffin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Iola quadrangle. It stands 988 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Petersville within Waupaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Petersville (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning42
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 August 1992Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesG-GG FIRE
17 August 1996Debris and open burning1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBREKKE LAKE
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRESNESS RD.
29 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMAPLE BRANCH
18 July 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca 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
Iola3.5 miles7
Northland4.1 miles7
Schmidt Corner5.5 miles7
Scandinavia5.6 miles8
Norske8.0 miles7
Sheridan9.9 miles8
Ogdensburg10.0 miles8
Big Falls10.3 miles7

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 Petersville (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7178285The 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 1850537. 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.