Black Wolf, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Black Wolf town. It lies in ZIP code area 54902. The Survey maps it on the Van Dyne quadrangle. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Black Wolf within Winnebago County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1956 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000
1980 USGS Van Dyne quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Van Dyne quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Black Wolf between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
26 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	195013
13 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	8171321
5 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	70
24 June 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	89
6 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	202385
16 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	202595
17 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	8029337
18 October 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	143

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago 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
Paukotuk	2.1 miles	10
Point Comfort	2.7 miles	12
Decorah Beach	2.8 miles	12
Black Wolf Point	2.9 miles	12
Little Point	3.2 miles	12
Stony Beach	3.5 miles	10
Fitzgerald	6.0 miles	10
Oshkosh	6.1 miles	9

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 Black Wolf	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714409	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 1577518. 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.