BlockSpaulding, Wisconsin
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in City Point town. It lies in ZIP code area 54466. The Survey maps it on the Spaulding quadrangle. It stands 971 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS City Point quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Spaulding quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
53 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Spaulding between 1992 and 2019, burning about 112 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | LONE PINE |
| 5 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.6 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 July 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 June 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 June 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 June 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 June 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 June 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pray | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| City Point | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Lapham Junction (historical) | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Speck Oaks (historical) | 9.1 miles | 11 | |
| Waterbury | 9.9 miles | 12 | |
| Clay (historical) | 14.3 miles | 11 | |
| Millston | 16.7 miles | 15 | |
| Hatfield | 17.2 miles | 11 |
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 Spaulding | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7574124 | 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 1574517. 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.