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Pureair, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bayfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 54814. It stands on Pikes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bayfield quadrangle. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Pureair within Bayfield County

On record in Pureair

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Pureair between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1

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 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWINSTON PROPERTY
10 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2000Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2008Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bayfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pureair: 1 past producer. 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
F. L. Wolfe Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bayfield 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
Salmo1.1 miles10
Bayfield2.1 miles10
Sioux4.1 miles11
Red Cliff5.5 miles10
Washburn8.5 miles11
Sand Bay11.0 miles10
Barksdale12.5 miles13
Cornucopia14.2 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 PureairAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7261164The 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 1577781. 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.