Rivers Edge, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Washington town. It lies in ZIP code area 54819. It lies near Pine Island. The Survey maps it on the Flambeau Ridge quadrangle.

Rivers Edge within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

1948 USGS Ladysmith quadrangle1:48000
1950 USGS Ladysmith quadrangle1:48000
1953 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Flambeau Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Bloomer quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Rivers Edge between 1992 and 2018, burning about 64 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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	25
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	2
Other causes	2
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
19 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HWY E DB
17 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 2013	Debris and open burning	4.6 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	RIVER ROAD
4 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	DAM RD FIRE
7 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BREAK OF DAWN FIRE
2 June 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BOOT LAKE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk 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 Rivers Edge: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Deer Trail Creek Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Port Arthur Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Swift Current Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Rusk 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
Flambeau Estates	1.0 miles	7
Thornapple	2.4 miles	7
Port Arthur	4.6 miles	7
Bruce	6.5 miles	7
Apollonia	7.0 miles	7
Ladysmith	8.4 miles	7
Island Lake	9.1 miles	7
Conrath	9.3 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2611835. 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.