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Weirgor, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Weirgor town. It lies in ZIP code area 54835. It stands on Badger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weirgor quadrangle. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Weirgor within Sawyer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

65 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Weirgor between 1993 and 2019, burning about 57 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning18
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Other causes5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMAJKA RD
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 1998Fireworks1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 June 2002Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Weirgor: 11 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Balczewski Road Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Balczewski Road Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chippewa River Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chippewa River Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chippewa River Gravel Deposit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chippewa River Gravel Deposit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chippewa River Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Deer Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Exeland Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
John Hajdasz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sawyer 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
Exeland2.0 miles8
Meteor5.1 miles8
Radisson6.0 miles8
Lemington6.6 miles9
Couderay7.6 miles9
Yarnell8.4 miles8
Wooddale10.2 miles8
Ojibwa10.9 miles8

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 WeirgorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7980358The 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 1576400. 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.