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Sanborn, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1984. It stands in White River town. It lies in ZIP code area 54856. It stands on Troutmere Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sanborn quadrangle. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Sanborn within Ashland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Sanborn between 1992 and 2019, burning about 56 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning27
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Natural2
Other causes1

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
12 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestMORGAN FALLS
2 August 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMAIN STREET
15 August 2007Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sanborn: 1 past producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
John L. Hegstrom Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ashland County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sanborn in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Flash FloodSanborn$1,000Flash flooding along Trout Brook washed out the nearby stretch of Highway 13.

Every storm recorded in Ashland 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
Marengo4.9 miles11
Minersville6.2 miles11
North York7.5 miles11
White River7.7 miles11
High Bridge9.6 miles9
Ashland11.1 miles13
Foster Junction13.6 miles12
Mellen15.1 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 SanbornAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7415584The 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 1573649. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.