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Carol Beach, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It lies in ZIP code area 53158. It stands on Barnes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kenosha quadrangle.

Carol Beach within Kenosha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

16 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Carol Beach between 2012 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking4
Debris and open burning1
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
9 September 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8369
24 August 2020Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources7960
8 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesNORTH UNIT
31 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources7106
10 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1383
3 June 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5072
15 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1198
9 May 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources4206

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kenosha County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Carol Beach: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Zion City PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Kenosha County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carol Beach in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCarol Beach$10,000Several 3 to 5 inch branches were taken off of trees as a squall line moved through the area.
September 2019Flash FloodCarol Beach$5,000Flash flooding of some streets in urban and rural areas especially in Twin Lakes, Paddock Lake, and the town of Bristol. Some roads were closed due to the high water.
September 2019FloodCarol Beach-Various roads remained flooded and closed across the county. This included a portion of County Road H in the eastern part of the county and 236th Ave. in Paddock Lake. Rising waters on Lily Lake resulted in waterfront properties surrounded by high water.
May 2014Heavy RainCarol Beach-Minor street flooding at the 1900 block of 91st Street. Also, the right lane of Sheridan Road was flooded.

Every storm recorded in Kenosha 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
Timber Ridge1.2 miles16
State Line1.4 miles16
Tobin1.7 miles16
South Kenosha2.3 miles16
Shorecrest Pointe2.5 miles16
Kenosha5.0 miles16
Truesdell6.2 miles14
Westwood Estates6.3 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122557681The 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 1562725. 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.