Cobb Town, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Farmington town. It lies in ZIP code area 54981. The Survey maps it on the Scandinavia quadrangle. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Cobb Town within Waupaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Waupaca quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Scandinavia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Cobb Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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 burning	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Railroad operations and maintenance	31
Recreation and ceremony	10
Smoking	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Fireworks	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Other causes	3

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
23 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TRAIN BRAKE FIRE
16 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PROCESSOR FIRE
6 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SAND LAKE
3 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cobb Town: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Q Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Waupaca 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
Sheridan	1.7 miles	8
Chain O' Lakes	4.0 miles	8
King	4.7 miles	8
Rural	5.4 miles	8
Parfreyville	6.2 miles	8
Little Hope	6.9 miles	8
Scandinavia	6.9 miles	8
Waupaca	7.0 miles	8

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 Cobb Town	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5138781	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 1563219. 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.