Trow, Wisconsin
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dewhurst town. It lies in ZIP code area 54456. It stands on Trow Mounds. The Survey maps it on the Merrillan quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1924 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1926 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1984 USGS Merrillan quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
54 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Trow (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 412 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | POERTNER ROAD |
| 8 July 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2006 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | ARNOLD FIRE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Humbird | 7.2 miles | 12 | |
| Sidney | 7.8 miles | 11 | |
| Neillsville | 10.0 miles | 11 | |
| Globe | 12.5 miles | 12 | |
| Shortville | 13.0 miles | 12 | |
| Tioga | 13.4 miles | 12 | |
| Christie | 13.9 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1840620. 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.







