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Cicero, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Cicero town. It lies in ZIP code area 54165. The Survey maps it on the Nichols quadrangle. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Cicero within Outagamie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cicero between 2018 and 2020, burning about 10 acres 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
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 April 2020Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources05
16 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018009
7 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1107401
28 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources192

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Outagamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cicero: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jenkins QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mapleview Road Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Nichols QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tesch Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Briarton Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Briarton Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elm Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Herman Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Herman Creek Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kamineski Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Outagamie County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cicero in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindCicero-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and powerlines north of Seymour. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCicero-Thunderstorm winds snapped six power poles and downed wires in the town of Cicero. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.

Every storm recorded in Outagamie 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
Nichols4.1 miles9
Seymour5.0 miles9
Isaar5.4 miles9
Black Creek7.4 miles8
Leeman9.0 miles8
Chicago Corners10.7 miles8
Five Corners11.0 miles8
Binghamton11.1 miles8

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 CiceroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5119360The 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 1563085. 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.