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Popple River, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Popple River town. It lies in ZIP code area 54511. It stands on Little Popple River. The Survey maps it on the Long Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,526 feet above sea level.

Popple River within Forest County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Popple River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestBIG MAC
7 July 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestVAN ZILE LAKE
20 July 2004Naturalunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCABIN
22 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestNORTH SHORE
22 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019008
15 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestBIG 4
1 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestPOPPLE
1 June 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestESCORT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Forest County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Popple River: 7 occurrences, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
County Line Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Highline Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Highline Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hillside Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Little Popple River Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Newald Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oldtime Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Popple River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
S Br Popple River Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Turn Point Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Forest 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
Newald3.8 miles10
Cavour10.0 miles10
Argonne13.7 miles11
Wisconsin Junction15.2 miles11
Alvin15.4 miles11
Armstrong Creek15.6 miles9
Laona15.7 miles9
Hiles16.6 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 Popple RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7229543The 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 1580192. 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.