Brockway, Wisconsin

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 2 records

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

• Black River Falls Public Librarylisted 2007 · 0.9 miles away
• Black River Falls Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2021 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1924 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1926 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1984 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Black River Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Brockway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Black River Falls
• Vaudreuil
• Sheppard
• Charter Oak Mills (historical)
• Winnebago Mission
• Fall Hall Glen

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Brockway: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jackson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1845427. 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.