Cullen, 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. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Cullen 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

73 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Cullen between 1993 and 2019, burning about 128 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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	27
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Arson/incendiarism	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 August 2014	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	COUNTY Y FIRE
2 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	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
10 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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

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
County Line	2.0 miles	8
Oconto	5.2 miles	8
Pensaukee	10.1 miles	8
Lena	10.3 miles	8
Stiles Junction	11.6 miles	8
Stiles	12.5 miles	8
Oak Orchard	13.0 miles	8
Brookside	13.3 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 Cullen	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5192979	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 1577562. 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.