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Twin Town, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Arland town. It lies in ZIP code area 54805. The Survey maps it on the Arland quadrangle. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.

Twin Town within Barron County

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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Twin Town between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
17 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019075
6 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1928330
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018042
15 July 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019062
5 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1812333
11 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020012
22 October 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1832327
21 October 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1832235

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Twin Town: 8 past producers, 6 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand. 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
Church Road MineSand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac SandUnknownSand
FLS Mine and Wet PlantSand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac SandProducerSand
Thompson Hills Mine and Wet PlantSand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac SandProducer
Alfred Koser Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Almena Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Almena Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Almena PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alois & Kath Stoeberl Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Arland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barron 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
Arland1.6 miles12
Almena3.9 miles12
Poskin5.1 miles7
Turtle Lake6.3 miles12
Comstock8.4 miles12
Prairie Farm8.9 miles7
Hillsdale9.7 miles7
Reeve9.7 miles12

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 Twin TownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7858317The 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 1577862. 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.