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Pine Creek, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Trempealeau town. It lies in ZIP code area 54661. It stands on Tamarack Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winona East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pine Creek within Trempealeau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

In the county-history sources

4,024 words on this township

History of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, published 1917 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Trempealeau Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Trempealeau Town - 4,024 words.

Fires near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Pine Creek (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
25 August 2014Naturalunder an acreTrempeleau National Wildlife RefugeBFC
15 June 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2004Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources14
9 April 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trempealeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Pine Creek (historical): 14 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
A Losinski Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Big Bend Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Bluff Siding Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Bluff Siding Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bork QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Buffalo Ridge Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Buffalo Ridge Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
C Carhart Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
F Klein Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
F Klein Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Trempealeau 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
West Prairie0.8 miles18
Wrights Corners3.7 miles11
Centerville4.2 miles11
Dodge4.9 miles16
Pine Creek4.9 miles16
Trempealeau6.1 miles11
Tamarack8.9 miles11
Galesville9.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1851150. 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.