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Bay Settlement, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Green Bay City. It lies in ZIP code area 54311. The Survey maps it on the Green Bay East quadrangle.

Bay Settlement within Brown County

On record in Bay Settlement

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bay Settlement between 2018 and 2020, burning about 25 acres 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1837896
28 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1837880
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2063
1 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2058
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18057
11 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2007161
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2004519
2 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2032

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bay Settlement: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Katers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bay Settlement QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mill No. 8Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Number 3 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quarry No. 8 and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Township of Scott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

7 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bay Settlement in 7 storm reports between 2017 and 2026: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2026HailBay Settlement-Nickel size hail fell near Bay Settlement.
May 2025HailBay Settlement-Quarter size hail fell near Green Bay. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2025HailBay Settlement-Nickel size hail fell near New Franken. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2024HailBay Settlement-Quarter size hail fell on the northeast side of Green Bay.
June 2024HailBay Settlement-Nickel size hail near New Franken.
June 2024HailBay Settlement-Nickel size hail fell in the town of Scott.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBay Settlement-Thunderstorm winds tore 4 to 5 inch limbs from trees and tossed them 100 to 150 feet.

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Wequiock1.1 miles11
Chapel Ridge1.6 miles11
New Franken3.8 miles9
Red Banks4.3 miles9
Benderville4.4 miles9
Humboldt4.9 miles9
Haevers Corners5.4 miles11
Preble5.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561321. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.