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Sweetheart City, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Middle Inlet town. It lies in ZIP code area 54177. The Survey maps it on the Wausaukee South quadrangle. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Sweetheart City within Marinette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 9 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

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Sweetheart City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 240 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 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 burning48
Equipment and vehicle use39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism18
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural5
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
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 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTRAW FIRE
3 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1998Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 1997Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2008Recreation and ceremony18 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marinette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Sweetheart City: 16 past producers, 10 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum. 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
Camp Five DepositMolybdenumOccurrence1937
Absent Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Another Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Camp Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
County Road Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crivitz Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crivitz Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Engleman Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Finnegan Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Inlet Stream Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marinette 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
Middle Inlet1.5 miles9
Wausaukee4.4 miles9
Crivitz5.5 miles10
Loomis9.0 miles10
Cedarville10.0 miles9
Athelstane10.1 miles8
Beaver12.0 miles10
Goll12.1 miles9

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 Sweetheart CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7655697The 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 1575183. 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.