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Shantytown, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bevent town. The Survey maps it on the Rosholt NW quadrangle. It stands 1,178 feet above sea level.

Shantytown within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Shantytown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
5 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesZIMMERMAN FIRE
11 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSHANTYTOWN
18 July 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY J 93
19 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY J 92
19 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY J 91
19 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY J 90

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Shantytown: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone, 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
Ellis CorporationFlagstonePast Producer
Marathon County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shantytown in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 5 hail, 1 tornado. 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
August 1996Tornado (F1)Shantytown$90,000no account filed
March 2026HailShantytown-Penny size hail fell near Knowlton.
September 2024HailShantytown-Penny size hail fell near Knowlton. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar.
October 2023HailShantytown-Nickel size hail fell near Knowlton.
May 2023HailShantytown-Penny size hail fell near Knowlton.
October 2019HailShantytown-Penny size hail fell east of Knowlton.

Every storm 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
Holt5.6 miles7
Bevent6.0 miles9
Little Eau Claire6.9 miles9
Galloway8.6 miles7
Ashley9.8 miles7
Rocky Corners9.9 miles7
Pike Lake10.0 miles9
Elderon11.6 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 ShantytownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7489110The 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 1577820. 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.