Brookside, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Easton town. It lies in ZIP code area 53910. It stands on Risk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Easton quadrangle.

Brookside within Adams 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.

1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Adams quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1983 USGS Easton quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Brookside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 374 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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 burning	74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Recreation and ceremony	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Other causes	4
Smoking	4
Natural	3

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
8 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams 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
Easton	1.7 miles	10
White Creek	3.2 miles	10
Adams Center (historical)	3.9 miles	10
Grand Marsh	6.1 miles	11
Adams	6.6 miles	10
Quincy (historical)	7.5 miles	10
Friendship	7.6 miles	10
Springbluff (historical)	8.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562244. 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.