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Dunkirk, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Dunkirk town. It lies in ZIP code area 53589. The Survey maps it on the Stoughton quadrangle. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Dunkirk within Dane County

On record in Dunkirk

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Dunkirk between 2006 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism1

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
13 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190
8 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBADFISH
8 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources101
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources136
27 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources125
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources113
2 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources94
16 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources96

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Dunkirk: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Reindahl QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rock County Highway DepartmentStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Fosdahl PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stearns PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunkirk in 1 storm report in 1996: 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
June 1996Thunderstorm WindDunkirk$5,000no 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
Riverwood Estates1.4 miles19
Rolling Acres1.4 miles19
Stoughton2.5 miles19
Hanerville (historical)2.6 miles19
Pleasant Hill2.9 miles19
Oak Knoll4.3 miles19
Petty Acres4.5 miles19
Stone5.3 miles19

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 DunkirkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5315382The 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 1564182. 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.