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Brookside, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pensaukee town. It lies in ZIP code area 54101. It stands on Brookside Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pensaukee quadrangle.

Brookside within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

183 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Brookside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 1 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 burning64
Equipment and vehicle use51
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Other causes5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
Natural1

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
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Brookside: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Montevideo QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Oconto County Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Snyder Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookside in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 4 hail. 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
August 2015HailBrookside$5,000Softball size hail fell near Abrams, causing isolated vehicle damage.
April 2020HailBrookside-Quarter size hail fell in Brookside.
August 2015HailBrookside-A thunderstorm dropped tennis ball size hail near Oak Orchard Road, as it passed north of Little Suamico. This report was received via social media, and the time of the event is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2011HailBrookside-Quarter size hail fell near Stiles.

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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
Abrams3.7 miles8
Oak Orchard4.1 miles8
Pensaukee4.7 miles8
Stiles4.7 miles8
Stiles Junction6.0 miles8
Little Suamico6.0 miles6
Sobieski Corners6.5 miles6
Sobieski7.0 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562245. 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.