Stiles Junction, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Stiles town. It lies in ZIP code area 54139. It stands on Splinter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lena quadrangle. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Stiles Junction within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Oconto Falls quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1974 USGS Lena quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Shawano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Stiles Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 244 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Equipment and vehicle use	56
Debris and open burning	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Recreation and ceremony	14
Arson/incendiarism	9
Fireworks	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	2
Smoking	2

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
3 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stiles Junction: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Military Road Dolomite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oconto 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
Stiles	1.5 miles	8
Lena	4.7 miles	8
Oconto Falls	5.1 miles	8
Brookside	6.0 miles	8
Abrams	7.2 miles	8
Spruce	7.9 miles	8
Pensaukee	8.2 miles	8
Oak Orchard	9.5 miles	8

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 Stiles Junction	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7616961	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 1577839. 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.