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Caroline, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grant town. It lies in ZIP code area 54928. It stands on Middle Branch Embarrass River. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle.

Caroline within Shawano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Caroline between 1994 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 2 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 burning11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTEFL LANE FIRE
6 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMALUEG RD FIRE
5 May 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMAPLE LANE
4 May 2019Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBOGEY FIRE
4 May 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 1996Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawano County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Caroline: 6 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Donald Mielke Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Earl Mielke Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gollnow Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Haase Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Island Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kussmann Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Laatsch Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Minniecheske Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Radke Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Strehlow Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Shawano County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caroline in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2013: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2013HailCaroline-A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail north of Marion.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCaroline-Thunderstorm winds knocked down an old barn on Kreuger Road and also knocked a tree down across CR-G north of Caroline.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindCaroline-An isolated severe thunderstorm produced straight-line wind damage around Caroline. A strong gust blew down several tents at a fair and downed power lines and a few trees. The storm also produced pea-size hail.
April 2003HailCaroline-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindCaroline-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawano 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
Leopolis4.1 miles7
Pella4.9 miles8
Hunting5.0 miles8
Tilleda6.6 miles7
Split Rock7.2 miles7
Tigerton9.2 miles7
Lyndhurst9.3 miles7
Five Corners10.1 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562726. 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.