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Green Lake Terrace, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Princeton town. It lies in ZIP code area 53946. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Princeton East quadrangle. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Green Lake Terrace within Green Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Green Lake Terrace between 1992 and 2020, burning about 322 acres in total. 2 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 burning38
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Other causes6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
4 September 1996Debris and open burning1.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesE433 FIRE
6 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWICKS LANDING
4 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH PINE
27 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOWER VS BIRD
19 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMAPLE
14 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesD MARSH FIRE
13 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Green Lake Terrace: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Farris PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kepe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stiffner PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Green Lake 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
Greenwyck2.2 miles14
Sylvan Shores2.2 miles14
Lakewood Estates2.7 miles14
Indian Hills4.2 miles10
Marquette4.6 miles10
Tuleta Hills4.8 miles10
Princeton5.6 miles14
Sherwood Forest5.7 miles10

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 Green Lake TerraceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714441The 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 1565823. 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.