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Center House, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Green Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 54971. The Survey maps it on the Green Lake quadrangle.

Center House within Green Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Center House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning45
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes3
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 1996Debris and open burning1.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesE433 FIRE
27 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOWER VS BIRD
5 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesOAKWOOD FIRE
5 July 2001Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY T FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Center House: 2 unknowns, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ferris PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kepe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nowaske Gettleman & Broder PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Green Lake 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
Tuleta Hills1.8 miles10
Spring Grove1.8 miles10
Sandstone Bluff1.9 miles10
Indian Hills2.1 miles10
Forest Glen Beach2.2 miles10
Sherwood Forest3.1 miles10
Lakewood Estates3.1 miles14
Pleasant Point3.4 miles10

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 Center HouseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65122895The 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 1562885. 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.