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White River, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Gingles town. It lies in ZIP code area 54806. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashland East quadrangle. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

White River within Ashland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of White River between 1992 and 2019, burning about 110 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning25
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2008Debris and open burning19 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2009Debris and open burning1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJUNK FARM
3 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2004Debris and open burning1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of White River: 1 past producer. None of them 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
Ashland Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ashland 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
Ashland4.3 miles13
Sanborn7.7 miles11
Marengo8.0 miles11
Minersville9.3 miles11
Odanah9.6 miles11
North York10.6 miles11
High Bridge11.8 miles9
Birch14.6 miles11

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 White RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7995278The 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 1577884. 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.