BlockQueenstown, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Westboro town. It lies in ZIP code area 54490. It stands on Fisher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Westboro quadrangle. It stands 1,499 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1944 USGS Ogema quadrangle1:48000
- 1947 USGS Ogema quadrangle1:48000
- 1949 USGS Ogema quadrangle1:48000
- 1953 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Westboro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Medford quadrangle1:100000
- 2005 USGS Westboro quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
59 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Queenstown between 1994 and 2020, burning about 37 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 August 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.8 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 July 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 July 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 June 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Queenstown: 9 past producers, 4 occurrences. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bjorklund Road Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Black Brook Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Chelsea Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Chelsea Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Fisher Creek Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Half Moon Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Levitt Creek Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Levitt Creek Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Linden Road Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Queenstown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westboro | 0.5 miles | 10 | |
| Chelsea | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Rib Lake | 4.8 miles | 8 | |
| Whittlesey | 9.1 miles | 6 | |
| Interwald | 12.7 miles | 9 | |
| Murat | 14.0 miles | 8 | |
| Medford | 15.0 miles | 6 | |
| Little Black | 17.1 miles | 6 |
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 Queenstown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7271096 | The 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 1580215. 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.