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Disco, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Albion town. It lies in ZIP code area 54642. The Survey maps it on the Taylor quadrangle. It stands 968 feet above sea level.

Disco within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Disco between 1992 and 2017, burning about 94 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Other causes1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 1999Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2003Arson/incendiarism6.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Disco in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 4 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDisco$2,000Trees were blown over north of Disco.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindDisco$2,000Trees were blown down northwest of Irving along County Road X.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDisco$2,000Several trees were blown down on a farm east of Disco.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindDisco$800no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Rogneys (historical)5.4 miles12
Franklin7.0 miles12
Charter Oak Mills (historical)7.1 miles13
Taylor7.1 miles13
Irving7.6 miles11
Sechlerville7.7 miles13
Hixton8.5 miles13
Black River Falls8.6 miles13

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 DiscoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5281508The 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 1563988. 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.