Sheldon Estates, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Sheldon Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54766. It stands on Alder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sheldon quadrangle.

Sheldon Estates within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1947 USGS Sheldon quadrangle1:48000
1949 USGS Sheldon quadrangle1:48000
1953 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Sheldon quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Medford quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Sheldon Estates between 1992 and 2019, burning about 166 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 burning	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	15
Other causes	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 August 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 August 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 June 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	RANGELINE FIRE
3 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 June 1992	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk 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 Sheldon Estates: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Namanie Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Sheldon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Rusk 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sheldon	0.2 miles	7
Conrath	6.6 miles	7
Tony	11.9 miles	8
Ladysmith	13.0 miles	7
Glen Flora	13.0 miles	8
Port Arthur	13.5 miles	7
Rivers Edge	14.3 miles	7
Flambeau Estates	15.0 miles	7

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.

Wikidata item Q122565871

The 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 2611836. 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.