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Snell, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Harrison town. It stands on Spring Brook. The Survey maps it on the Hogarty quadrangle. It stands 1,450 feet above sea level.

Snell within Marathon 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

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Snell between 1994 and 2019, burning about 215 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
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
7 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLAST STRAW FIRE
6 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY Y #1
6 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY Y #3
6 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY Y #2
3 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRAILER PARK
9 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWARM SPRING DAY
7 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Snell: 12 past producers, 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. 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
Arthur Weden Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dale Keen Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hogarty Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mildred Walters Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Red Granite Road Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Snell Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Woodland Drive Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Donald Thompson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Emil Hasse Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Emil Hasse Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

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
Hogarty2.3 miles11
Johnson5.0 miles11
Kalinke6.2 miles11
Glandon7.8 miles11
Sunset11.6 miles11
Norrie12.1 miles9
Hatley12.1 miles9
Nutterville13.4 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 SnellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7547610The 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 1577826. 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.