Douglas Center, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Douglas town. It lies in ZIP code area 53952. It stands on O'Keefe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Briggsville quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Douglas Center within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1902 USGS Briggsville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Briggsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Briggsville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Douglas Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 262 acres in total. 4 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 burning	69
Equipment and vehicle use	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Recreation and ceremony	9
Other causes	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	4
Fireworks	4
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
25 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette 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
Briggsville	3.5 miles	15
Endeavor	4.8 miles	12
Buffalo Shore Estates	5.3 miles	12
Oxford	5.6 miles	11
Packwaukee	6.7 miles	10
Anacker	7.9 miles	12
Glen Oak	10.7 miles	12
Lawrence	12.6 miles	11

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 Douglas Center	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5301322	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 1837611. 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.