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Pine River, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Pine River town. It lies in ZIP code area 54452. It stands on Pine River. The Survey maps it on the Pine Dells quadrangle. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Pine River within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Pine River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning28
Equipment and vehicle use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks6
Other causes4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOPPIN POPPLE
11 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use5.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROMAN CANDLE FIRE
28 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Pine River: 10 past producers, 7 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
County Line Creek Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Gravel PitStoneUnknown
Anderson Brothers and Johnson Co.GranitePast Producer
Rib Mountain QuarryGraniteProducer
Ruby Red QuarryGraniteProducer
Big Eddy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bracks Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
County Line Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
County Line Creek Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Merrill4.6 miles12
Dutch Corners8.0 miles12
Otis10.0 miles9
Doering11.1 miles11
Bloomville12.1 miles9
Gleason13.8 miles11
Irma15.2 miles9
Dudley16.2 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 Pine RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195332The 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 1577770. 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.