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Greenwyck, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Green Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 53946. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Princeton East quadrangle. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Greenwyck 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Greenwyck between 1992 and 2020, burning about 311 acres in total. 1 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 burning39
Equipment and vehicle use32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Fireworks6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes5
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
8 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
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
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
16 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesD MARSH FIRE

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 Greenwyck: 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
Lakewood Estates0.6 miles14
Sylvan Shores1.7 miles14
Green Lake Terrace2.2 miles14
Indian Hills2.2 miles10
Tuleta Hills2.8 miles10
Center House3.6 miles10
Sandstone Bluff3.7 miles10
Sherwood Forest4.0 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 GreenwyckAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5605116The 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 1843746. 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.