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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.

Trow within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

54 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOERTNER ROAD
8 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesARNOLD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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
Columbia2.8 miles11
Humbird7.2 miles12
Sidney7.8 miles11
Neillsville10.0 miles11
Globe12.5 miles12
Shortville13.0 miles12
Tioga13.4 miles12
Christie13.9 miles11

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.