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Bridgeport, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bridgeport town. It lies in ZIP code area 53821. It lies near Weniger Island. The Survey maps it on the Bridgeport quadrangle. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Bridgeport within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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 Bridgeport between 1992 and 2018, burning about 145 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHORSE CAMP FIRE
29 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIREWORKS 2
25 June 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bridgeport: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Dahman QuarryStoneUnknown
Wetzel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgeport in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 2 hail, 2 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBridgeport$30,000A storage building was destroyed in Bridgeport.
June 1998HailBridgeport$8,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindBridgeport$1,000no account filed
May 2014HailBridgeport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
White Corners4.2 miles19
Prairie du Chien5.3 miles20
Wauzeka10.6 miles10
Eastman11.1 miles19
Charme11.7 miles19
Boydtown15.2 miles10
Steuben15.9 miles10
Lynxville16.4 miles19

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 BridgeportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17182769The 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 1562198. 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.