Dorns Twilight Beach, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Stockbridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 53014. It stands on Roberts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stockbridge quadrangle. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

Dorns Twilight Beach within Calumet 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.

1911 USGS Neenah quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Neenah quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1974 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dorns Twilight Beach between 2000 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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	3
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 June 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	41
14 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	47
1 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	31
19 April 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 March 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 November 2020	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	92

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calumet County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dorns Twilight Beach: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
J and E Quarries	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lefeber Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mueller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Calumet 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
Sunset Beach	1.7 miles	10
Quinney	1.9 miles	10
Eckers Lakeland	2.5 miles	10
Stockbridge	2.5 miles	10
Kloten	2.9 miles	10
Saint Catherines Bay	3.0 miles	10
Rockaway Beach	4.0 miles	10
Brothertown	5.0 miles	12

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 Dorns Twilight Beach	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5298142	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 1564064. 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.