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Tannery Town, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Mellen City. It lies in ZIP code area 54546. It stands on City Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mellen quadrangle.

Tannery Town within Ashland County

On record in Tannery Town

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Tannery Town between 1993 and 2019, burning about 54 acres in total. 4 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 maintenance16
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 1998Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2007Natural3.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 1994Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland 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 Tannery Town: 9 past producers, 9 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Stone, Dimension. 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
Anderson PitStoneProducer
Ashland Black Granite QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Berkshire MineIronPast Producer1848, 1922, 1924
Berkshire MineIronPast Producer1922
Penokee DepositIronProspect1848
West Gogebic Taconite DepositIronPast Producer1848
Anderson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ashland County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ashland County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ashland County Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ashland 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
Mellen0.6 miles12
White City0.6 miles12
Foster Junction2.7 miles12
Cayuga5.4 miles10
High Bridge6.5 miles9
Morse6.8 miles10
North York8.3 miles11
Minersville9.7 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122571639The 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 1837856. 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.