BlockCato Falls, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Cato town. It lies in ZIP code area 54230. The Survey maps it on the Valders quadrangle. It stands 833 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Reedsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Valders quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Valders quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Cato Falls between 1994 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | COLLINS MARSH 1 |
| 8 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 09 |
| 22 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20 |
| 13 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 10 |
| 13 May 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | COLLINS MARSH 2 |
| 28 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018019 |
| 22 April 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 85 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 9 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cato Falls: 1 unknown. None of them 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grimm Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarks Mills | 1.6 miles | 8 | |
| Valders | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Grimms | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Cato | 3.4 miles | 9 | |
| North Grimms | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Madsen | 3.9 miles | 8 | |
| Whitelaw | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Collins | 4.9 miles | 10 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Cato Falls | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17986308 | The 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 2760477. 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.