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Door Creek, Wisconsin

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Cottage Grove town. It lies in ZIP code area 53527. The Survey maps it on the Cottage Grove quadrangle. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Door Creek within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 26 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

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Door Creek between 1994 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources239
3 August 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1919678
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203
14 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources232
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources160
25 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources186
24 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources175
23 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Door Creek: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kampmeier QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kreuger QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
L. Kelly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lunde QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Door Creek in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 hail. 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 2022HailDoor Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Nora2.1 miles26
Hoffman Corners2.1 miles26
Cottage Grove3.3 miles26
Hope3.4 miles26
Kegonsa3.6 miles19
Taylors Corners4.0 miles26
Vilas4.8 miles26
McFarland5.5 miles23

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 Door CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5297189The 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 1577576. 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.

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.