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Welch Point, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Eau Galle town. It lies in ZIP code area 54737. It stands on Hay Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arkansaw quadrangle. It stands 778 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Welch Point within Dunn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Welch Point (historical) between 2018 and 2019, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 May 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1081
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19
12 November 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources56
21 October 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources52

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dunn 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 Welch Point (historical): 8 occurrences, 7 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Patnode QuarryStoneUnknown
Brooks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chippewa River Bar Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cranes Bend Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Dunnville Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eau Galle River Sand Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Robert Sol Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Yellow Bank Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bundy PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joe Gray Coulee Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dunn 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
Eau Galle0.7 miles13
Comfort5.1 miles11
Dunnville5.8 miles12
Downsville6.5 miles13
Red Cedar6.9 miles12
Weston8.2 miles11
Old Tyrone (historical)9.0 miles12
Irvington9.7 miles13

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 Welch Point (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7980558The 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 1578271. 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.