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Sabin, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sylvan town. It lies in ZIP code area 53581. It stands on Kepler Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sabin quadrangle.

Sabin within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Sabin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 234 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
26 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2013Debris and open burning6.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCO E AND ENGLISH RIDGE
24 August 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDITCH 1
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDITCH 2
3 July 2012Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLIGHTNING FIRE
15 July 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Sabin: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Benson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bert Ray QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bosstown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Coumbs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jones QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Spangler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thompson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wilson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Richland 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
Mill Creek (historical)3.2 miles10
Sylvan3.2 miles10
Bosstown3.5 miles10
McGrew (historical)5.0 miles12
Jimtown6.5 miles10
Gillingham6.6 miles12
Bloom City7.1 miles12
Boaz7.2 miles10

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 SabinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7396099The 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 1577806. 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.