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South Range, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Parkland town. It lies in ZIP code area 54874. The Survey maps it on the South Range quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

South Range within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of South Range between 1992 and 2020, burning about 215 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 maintenance49
Equipment and vehicle use41
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism7
Fireworks2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLAMAR BILLBOARD
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 53 -1
15 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin 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

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of South Range: 11 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead. 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
Unnamed Prospect Near Flannagan FCopper, LeadOccurrence
Amnicon Falls Station QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Amnicon River Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Anderson & McKay PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fire Tower PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Flannagan Fire Tower QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
George Larson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Granum QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnstad PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lakeside Rd & Amnicon River PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Range in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2025HailSouth Range-Most were penny to nickel size and accumulated deep enough to shovel. The largest stones were quarter to half dollar sized.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindSouth Range-A tree was snapped by the wind.
March 2025HailSouth Range-no account filed
May 2007HailSouth Range-no account filed
September 2002HailSouth Range-no account filed
May 2001HailSouth Range-no account filed

Every storm 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
Cutter2.2 miles9
Parkland2.8 miles9
South Itasca3.9 miles16
Sunnyside3.9 miles12
Rockmont4.2 miles8
Itasca4.8 miles16
Amnicon Falls5.0 miles8
Ambridge5.0 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 RangeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7568285The 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 1574481. 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.