Torun, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Dewey town. It lies in ZIP code area 54482. The Survey maps it on the Stevens Point quadrangle. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Torun within Portage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Stevens Point quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Stevens Point quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

74 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Torun between 1993 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning	26
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	6
Other causes	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ZIMMERMAN FIRE
23 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BOX FIRE ON I 39
2 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	AJ'S LOST CREEK
9 July 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 1995	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage 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
Jordan	2.7 miles	9
Ellis	4.3 miles	7
North Star	4.6 miles	7
Polonia	5.9 miles	7
Casimir	6.0 miles	9
Little Waupon	6.2 miles	7
Park Ridge	6.8 miles	9
Stevens Point	7.1 miles	9

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 Torun	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7827442	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 1577855. 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.