Frostville, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Maple Valley town. It lies in ZIP code area 54174. The Survey maps it on the Hickory Corners quadrangle. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Frostville within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1942 USGS Breed quadrangle1:48000
1952 USGS Mountain quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Hickory Corners quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Wabeno quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Frostville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning	39
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Fireworks	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	DITCH MOWING FIRE
29 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HWY 32 AND WILLOW RD. FIRE
26 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	CLAYWOOD FIRE
16 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 June 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Frostville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Valley Line Road Ls Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oconto 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Suring	2.5 miles	6
Hickory Corners	3.8 miles	9
Hayes	5.2 miles	6
Kelly Brook	6.6 miles	8
Logan	6.9 miles	9
Breed	7.0 miles	9
Hintz	7.6 miles	6
Gillett	8.0 miles	6

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 Frostville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5506223	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 1579299. 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.