Casco Junction, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Luxemburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 54217. It stands on Rogers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Luxemburg quadrangle.

Casco Junction within Kewaunee 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.

1952 USGS Casco quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Luxemburg quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Sturgeon Bay quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Casco Junction in 1993, burning under an acre 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
Smoking	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
1 May 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Casco Junction: 19 past producers, 5 producers, 4 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Luxemburg Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Casco Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Casco Gravel Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Casco Gravel Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Duescher Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
H Arendt Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
H Lemens Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hillside Road Gravel Deposit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Hillside Road Gravel Deposit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
J Kudick Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kewaunee 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
Casco	2.5 miles	8
Ryans Corner	2.6 miles	8
Luxemburg	2.9 miles	8
Slovan	3.6 miles	8
Clyde	3.7 miles	8
Neuern	4.4 miles	8
Ellisville	5.3 miles	8
Thiry Daems	5.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577538. 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.