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Durham, Wisconsin

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Muskego City. It lies in ZIP code area 53150. The Survey maps it on the North Cape quadrangle.

Durham within Waukesha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

17 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Durham between 2010 and 2020, burning about 389 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources140
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources170
5 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1376
27 May 2010Natural200 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeBIG MUSKEGO MARSH WF
26 May 2010Natural180 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources93
1 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources68
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources927

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Durham: 1 producer. All of them 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
Lippman Plant # 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durham in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 flash flood. 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
September 2019Flash FloodDurham$1,000Flash flooding and closures of multiple roads from New Berlin to Muskego.

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Lake Brittany Estates3.0 miles18
Durhamswood3.1 miles18
Squire Glen Estates3.6 miles18
Tess Corners4.1 miles18
Golden Country Estates4.2 miles18
Woodcrest Heights4.3 miles18
Muskego4.5 miles18
Lake Forest5.1 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1564198. 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.