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.
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
17 since 1996Regional 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 burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 70 |
| 7 May 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | UIHLEIN |
| 13 May 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Menominee Tribe | CTY M WEST |
| 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 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 202385 |
| 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 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2012 | Lightning | Fisk | $750,000 | Lightning stuck an electrical box, starting a barn fire that destroyed the barn and a recreational vehicle, and killed 13 show horses. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Fisk | - | 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 2014 | Heavy Rain | Fisk | - | Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused street flooding north of Fisk, near the intersection of Highway 91 and FF. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisk | - | Thunderstorms produced wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph near Oshkosh. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisk | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts to 75 mph downed trees southwest of Oshkosh. |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Fisk | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Fisk | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Fisk | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisk | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elo | 1.9 miles | 9 | |
| Zion | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Fitzgerald | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Ring | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Pickett | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Waukau | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Omro | 6.7 miles | 8 | |
| Melrose Park | 6.9 miles | 9 |
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 Fisk | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5455161 | 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 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.




