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Rantz, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Minocqua town. It lies in ZIP code area 54548. The Survey maps it on the Hazelhurst quadrangle. It stands 1,621 feet above sea level.

Rantz within Oneida 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

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Rantz between 1992 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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 burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism16
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Recreation and ceremony8
Fireworks5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes3
Natural1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BAY FIRE
15 August 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIREWORKS DRIVEBY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Rantz: 10 past producers, 10 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 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
Blue Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bolger Lake Gravel Deposit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Clawson Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Curtis Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hazelhurst Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hungry Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Johnson Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Katherine Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida 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
Hazelhurst1.7 miles12
Minocqua2.9 miles12
Woodruff4.8 miles12
Sunflower5.0 miles12
Lake Tomahawk7.3 miles12
Goodnow9.8 miles12
McNaughton12.0 miles12
Harshaw12.1 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 RantzAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7293562The 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 1572080. 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.