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Tyran, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Florence town. It lies in ZIP code area 54121. It stands on Montagne Creek. The Survey maps it on the Florence West quadrangle. It stands 1,299 feet above sea level.

Tyran within Florence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Tyran between 1992 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 2 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Natural2
Smoking1

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
9 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIRE CRACKER
27 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBRULE DAM ROAD
24 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSECOND CROSSING 1
24 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSECOND CROSSING 2
17 July 2000Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Tyran: 9 occurrences, 8 past producers, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Manganese. 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
Stager Manganese PropertyManganeseProspect
Ernst MineIronPast Producer1849, 1914, 1929
Ernst MineIronPast Producer1912, 1914
Florence MineIronPast Producer1849, 1880, 1931
Florence MineIronPast Producer1880
Larson ExplorationIronProspect
Larson Exploration ProspectIronOccurrence1849, 1948
Blooms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Commonwealth Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Commonwealth Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Florence 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
Ridgetop2.3 miles9
Florence3.4 miles9
Commonwealth4.2 miles10
Hematite5.8 miles10
Fern8.9 miles8
Spread Eagle9.9 miles10
Pulp11.8 miles11
Fence15.4 miles9

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 TyranAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7861425The 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 1577864. 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.