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Enterprise, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Enterprise town. It lies in ZIP code area 54463. It stands on Pine Needle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Enterprise quadrangle. It stands 1,627 feet above sea level.

Enterprise within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Enterprise between 1992 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Smoking1

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
27 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesESCAPE CAMPFIRE
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesOLD ELCHO
9 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Enterprise: 10 past producers, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Enterprise Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Enterprise Lake Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Guths Bay Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lower First Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Moccasin Lake Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Moccasin Lake Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Otter Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pelican Lake Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Pelican Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pelican Lake Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Enterprise in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindEnterprise$75,000High winds from thunderstorms downed trees and power lines. Fallen trees significantly damaged a house and blocked two roads along the southwest shore of Pelican Lake.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Enterprise-A brief tornado uprooted several hundred pine trees (DI 28, DOD 3) just north of Highway Q near the Oneida County/Langlade County line, about 9.5 miles west-southwest of Pelican Lake. The EF0 tornado was on the ground for less than a minute and had an average width of 100 yards.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindEnterprise-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees near Enterprise.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindEnterprise-no account filed
June 2007HailEnterprise-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Pelican Lake4.9 miles10
Pratt Junction5.1 miles10
Monico7.7 miles8
Malvern7.8 miles9
Jennings9.9 miles9
Lennox9.9 miles9
Starks11.6 miles9
Roosevelt12.4 miles9

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 EnterpriseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5380277The 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 1564671. 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.