Woodlawn, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Nashville town. It lies in ZIP code area 54465. The Survey maps it on the Roberts Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,572 feet above sea level.

Woodlawn within Forest 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.

1942 USGS Pearson quadrangle1:48000
1950 USGS Lily quadrangle1:48000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Roberts Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Wabeno quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Woodlawn between 1994 and 2017, burning about 25 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Other causes	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
1 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 July 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	HIMLEY ISLAND
1 July 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 June 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	HUETTL
4 May 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	DEEP HOLE LAKE
4 May 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Forest 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Keith (historical)	6.2 miles	11
Wabeno	8.6 miles	11
Mole Lake	9.2 miles	10
Padus	9.3 miles	11
Soperton	9.8 miles	11
Crandon	10.6 miles	11
Carter	10.7 miles	11
Minertown (historical)	10.9 miles	11

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 Woodlawn	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8032990	The 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 1580828. 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.