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Fisk, 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 830 feet above sea level.

Fisk within Winnebago 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

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Fisk between 1996 and 2020, burning about 254 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
5 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources70
7 May 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresHoricon National Wildlife RefugeUIHLEIN
13 May 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMenominee TribeCTY M WEST
1 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources42
9 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresLeopold Wetland Management DistrictVEG FIRE
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202385
6 April 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources33
4 April 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresLeopold Wetland Management DistrictCOOP FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fisk in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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
May 2012LightningFisk$750,000Lightning stuck an electrical box, starting a barn fire that destroyed the barn and a recreational vehicle, and killed 13 show horses.
August 2015HailFisk-A thunderstorm dropped quarter size hail as it passed north of Fisk. This report was received via social media and the time of the event is estimated based on radar data.
June 2014Heavy RainFisk-Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused street flooding north of Fisk, near the intersection of Highway 91 and FF.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFisk-Thunderstorms produced wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph near Oshkosh.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFisk-Thunderstorm wind gusts to 75 mph downed trees southwest of Oshkosh.
June 2007Funnel CloudFisk-no account filed
July 2005HailFisk-no account filed
May 2002HailFisk-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindFisk-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winnebago 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
Elo1.9 miles9
Zion3.0 miles9
Fitzgerald3.5 miles10
Ring3.8 miles9
Pickett4.1 miles9
Waukau5.5 miles10
Omro6.7 miles8
Melrose Park6.9 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 FiskAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5455161The 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 1565028. 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.

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.