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Fox Crossing, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Fox Crossing Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54956. The Survey maps it on the Neenah quadrangle. 18,974 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Fox Crossing within Winnebago County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

25 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Fox Crossing between 2007 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined12
Fireworks3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources106
15 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources112
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1711
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesAP00565
6 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources9000084
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1386
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources96
12 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1485

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Fox Crossing: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
Deitz QuarryStoneUnknown
Mccarthy Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Van Handel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Badger Highway Menasha QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Curtiss QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jorgenson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Schultz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Menasha2.4 miles12
Neenah2.6 miles12
Brighton Beach3.6 miles12
Waverly Beach4.3 miles12
Sunrise Bay4.6 miles12
Rainbow Beach4.8 miles12
Adella Beach5.5 miles12
Ricker Bay6.2 miles12

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 Fox CrossingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24062064The 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 2783854. 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.