Carmel, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Lebanon town. It lies in ZIP code area 54961. The Survey maps it on the Northport quadrangle.

Carmel within Waupaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Weyauwega quadrangle1:48000
1969 USGS Northport quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Northport quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

85 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Carmel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	36
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
28 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HWY O FIRE
3 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	MERGER FIRE
15 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HIGHWAY 54 DITCHLINE
11 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HIGHWAY 54 DITCHLINE TWO
2 June 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	GARDEN PATCH
12 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	107
9 May 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HIGHWAY 54

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Carmel: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
A Matz Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
B Duch Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Breiting Road Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Finger Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Murphy Construction Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sasse Road Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sugar Bush Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Waupaca 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
Northport	2.5 miles	7
Nowell (historical)	3.0 miles	7
Royalton	4.1 miles	7
Ostrander	4.2 miles	7
New London	4.8 miles	7
Shaw Landing	5.5 miles	8
Little Wolf (historical)	5.7 miles	7
Nicholson	6.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1850419. 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.