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Petes Landing, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Agenda town. It lies in ZIP code area 54514. The Survey maps it on the Hay Creek Flowage quadrangle. It stands 1,562 feet above sea level.

Petes Landing within Ashland 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

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Petes Landing between 1993 and 2018, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
22 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2001Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestJR COMMANDER
8 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHOFFMAN LAKE FIRE
8 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestHOFFMAN
6 May 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCTY FF
1 May 2018Debris and open burning1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBOAT LANDING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Petes Landing: 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Ashland County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Agenda DepositIronOccurrence
Agenda DepositIronProspectSurface
Ford LucasIronUnknownMagnetite
Michigan MineIronUnknownHematite, Magnetite

Every working recorded in Ashland 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
Holts Landing3.6 miles10
Butternut9.0 miles10
Peeksville11.3 miles9
Glidden14.6 miles10
Shanagolden17.0 miles11
Morse19.9 miles10
Cayuga23.1 miles10
Tannery Town25.4 miles12

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 Petes LandingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7178292The 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 1577767. 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.