BlockElo, Wisconsin
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Utica town. It lies in ZIP code area 54904. The Survey maps it on the Pickett quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Pickett quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
14 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Elo between 1996 and 2020, burning about 334 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | UIHLEIN |
| 1 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 42 |
| 9 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | VEG FIRE |
| 6 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 33 |
| 4 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | COOP FIRE |
| 24 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 36 |
| 18 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 140 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Elo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5367030 | 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 1577588. 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.