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Dakota, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Dakota town. It lies in ZIP code area 54982. The Survey maps it on the Germania quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Dakota within Waushara County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Dakota between 1992 and 2020, burning about 731 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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 burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism7
Other causes6
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJD FIRE
24 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMIELKE WAY RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waushara County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dakota in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindDakota-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waushara 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
Richford4.8 miles7
Wautoma6.9 miles6
Bannerman7.0 miles14
Silver Lake8.2 miles8
Coloma9.3 miles6
Spring Lake10.7 miles8
Rodney (historical)12.1 miles14
Mount Morris12.3 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 DakotaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5209982The 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 1563668. 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.

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.