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Shaw Landing, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Mukwa town. It lies in ZIP code area 54961. It stands on Little Wolf River. The Survey maps it on the Readfield quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Shaw Landing within Waupaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

In the county-history sources

1,087 words on this township

History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, published 1890 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Mukwa Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Mukwa Town - 1,087 words.

Fires near this place

119 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Shaw Landing between 1994 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 1 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 burning51
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
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
18 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2012Natural2.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSLOUGH RD.
1 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2002Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSEEFELD RD.
5 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMERGER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Shaw Landing: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Black Creek Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Murphy Construction CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
New London PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R Lathrop Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
R Lathrop Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Waupaca 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
Ostrander2.4 miles7
Northport3.1 miles7
New London4.1 miles7
Royalton4.3 miles7
Carmel5.5 miles7
North Readfield5.9 miles8
Gills Landing5.9 miles7
Little Wolf (historical)6.2 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 Shaw LandingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7491176The 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 1577821. 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.