Rangeline, Wisconsin

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Green Valley town. The Survey maps it on the Honey Island quadrangle. It stands 1,201 feet above sea level.

Rangeline within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Milladore quadrangle1:48000
1970 USGS Honey Island quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Rangeline between 1994 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
16 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	NORTH HONEY ISLAND
8 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18009
29 May 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18014
12 May 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	19 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2009	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WILDWOOD RD
9 April 2000	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 April 2013	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TURTLE SOUP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rangeline: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Arnold Spindler Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Alvin Bornbach Granite Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Wild Creek Granite Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Marathon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rozellville	3.2 miles	11
Bradley	4.8 miles	12
Halder	6.3 miles	7
Stratford	7.3 miles	12
Weber	8.6 miles	12
Staadts (historical)	8.6 miles	12
Fenwood	8.9 miles	12
Moon	9.5 miles	7

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 Rangeline	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7292732	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 1572074. 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.