County Line, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Little River town. It lies in ZIP code area 54153. The Survey maps it on the Oconto East quadrangle.

County Line within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1954 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Oconto quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Oconto East quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Sturgeon Bay quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of County Line between 1992 and 2019, burning about 93 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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	35
Arson/incendiarism	18
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1

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
11 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 July 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 July 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 June 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 June 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto 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
Cullen	2.0 miles	8
Oconto	7.1 miles	8
Lena	10.6 miles	8
Pensaukee	12.0 miles	8
Stiles Junction	12.7 miles	8
Stiles	13.7 miles	8
Oak Orchard	14.9 miles	8
Brookside	14.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1563451. 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.