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Schnappsville, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Rietbrock town. The Survey maps it on the Wien quadrangle. It stands 1,440 feet above sea level.

Schnappsville within Marathon 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

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Schnappsville between 2007 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
2 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources90220
15 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources61518
1 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources60118
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources50518
30 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources051418B
11 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources51118
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources705
28 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources42819

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Schnappsville: 12 occurrences, 10 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Athens Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Athens Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Athens Gravel Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frank Drewek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kildeer Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Swallow Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Aspen Road Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Aspen Road Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bobwhite Lane Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Poniatowski2.2 miles7
Wuertsburg4.0 miles12
Edgar4.6 miles7
Athens4.9 miles9
Wien4.9 miles12
Swan5.8 miles12
Corinth6.4 miles8
Rib Falls6.4 miles7

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 SchnappsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7431862The 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 1573790. 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.