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Chapel Ridge, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Scott town. It lies in ZIP code area 54311. The Survey maps it on the Green Bay East quadrangle.

Chapel Ridge within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

18 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Chapel Ridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1837896
28 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1837880
1 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2058
19 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2007494
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18057
11 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2007161
28 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1835524
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2004519

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Chapel Ridge: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Katers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bay Settlement QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mill No. 8Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Number 3 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quarry No. 8 and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Township of Scott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Brown 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
Bay Settlement1.6 miles11
Wequiock2.8 miles11
Haevers Corners4.1 miles11
New Franken4.2 miles9
Preble4.2 miles10
Humboldt4.6 miles9
Red Banks5.9 miles9
Benderville6.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562944. 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.