Gills Landing, Wisconsin
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Weyauwega town. It lies in ZIP code area 54983. It stands on Waupaca River. The Survey maps it on the Weyauwega quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Weyauwega quadrangle1:48000
- 1969 USGS Weyauwega quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
261 words on this townshipHistory of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, published 1890 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Weyauwega Town covers the township.
Read the chapter on Weyauwega Town - 261 words.
Fires near this place
118 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Gills Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 | 44 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | WEGA HILL FIRE |
| 23 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HAULING |
| 18 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 September 2012 | Natural | 2.8 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SLOUGH RD. |
| 1 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HIGHWAY 96 |
| 6 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BOO BOO |
| 6 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | EAST |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Banks | 2.2 miles | 8 | |
| Evanswood | 2.7 miles | 7 | |
| Weyauwega | 3.0 miles | 7 | |
| Fremont | 3.1 miles | 8 | |
| Shaw Landing | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| North Readfield | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Hatton (historical) | 6.3 miles | 7 | |
| Readfield | 6.4 miles | 8 |
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 Gills Landing | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5562432 | 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 1577611. 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.



