The same night as the Great Chicago Fire, October 8, 1871, a much bigger fire burned in northwestern Wisconsin and upper Michigan named after this Wisconsin town which received the most damage.
- Kingsford
- Marek
- Peshitgo
- Rhinelander
The same night as the Great Chicago Fire, October 8, 1871, a much bigger fire burned in northwestern Wisconsin and upper Michigan named after this Wisconsin town which received the most damage.
Peshtigo. The death toll in Chicago was 250. For the Peshitgo Fire, it was over 1,200. It burned 1.5 million acres, much of it forest.
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