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South Itasca, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Parkland town. It lies in ZIP code area 54874. The Survey maps it on the Superior quadrangle. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

South Itasca within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of South Itasca between 1992 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Railroad operations and maintenance35
Equipment and vehicle use30
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2
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
9 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 53-2
9 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenance3.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 53 -1
11 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2006Debris and open burning2.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of South Itasca: 3 unknowns, 2 plants, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Sulfur, 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
(Facility) Superior Refinery--Murphy Oil CoSulfurPlant
CatlinCopperUnknownCopper
Superior Lime PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Amnicon River Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lakeside Rd & Amnicon River PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Largro PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mclean DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Itasca0.9 miles16
Parkland1.0 miles9
Allouez2.1 miles16
Cutter3.2 miles9
Ambridge3.9 miles16
South Range3.9 miles8
East End4.3 miles16
South Superior4.8 miles16

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 South ItascaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7567560The 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 1577831. 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.