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Upson, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Anderson town. It lies in ZIP code area 54565. It stands on Apple Creek. The Survey maps it on the Upson quadrangle. It stands 1,489 feet above sea level.

Upson within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Upson between 1995 and 2011, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2011Natural3.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Upson: 15 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Apple Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Casey Sag Rd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Erickson Cr PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gogebic DepositIronOccurrence1848
Iron Belt MineIronPast Producer1848, 1888, 1912
Iron Belt MineIronPast Producer1888
O'Brian Lake Rd Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
O'Brian Lake Rd Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Potato River Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Potato River Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upson in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006Thunderstorm WindUpson-Several twelve to eightenn inch diameter trees were blown down.
September 2020HailUpson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Iron Belt4.9 miles11
Hoyt6.4 miles11
Pence7.8 miles11
Saxon8.6 miles11
Gurney8.9 miles9
Kimball9.4 miles11
Montreal9.4 miles14
Gile10.5 miles14

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 UpsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7899295The 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 1576004. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.