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Dundas, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Woodville town. It lies in ZIP code area 54130. The Survey maps it on the Hilbert quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Dundas within Calumet County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Dundas between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2

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
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources235
15 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources14
5 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources13
25 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources137
10 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources118
18 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBU18031

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calumet County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dundas: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Kaukauna Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Soyburn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calumet County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dundas in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindDundas-Thunderstorms produced a wind gust to 79 mph near Forest Junction.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Forest Junction3.2 miles9
Saint John4.5 miles9
Sherwood5.3 miles11
Hilbert Junction6.4 miles9
Darboy6.7 miles11
Hilbert6.7 miles9
High Cliff (historical)6.9 miles11
Highland Beach7.0 miles11

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 DundasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5314751The 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 1564178. 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.