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Harbor Springs, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Omro town. It lies in ZIP code area 54963. It stands on Spring Brook. The Survey maps it on the Omro quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Harbor Springs within Winnebago County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Harbor Springs between 2003 and 2020, burning about 402 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
10 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources284
22 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018028
4 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY H #1
13 May 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMenominee TribeCTY M WEST
20 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources160
29 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201812
24 October 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources495
27 January 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBORTH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Harbor Springs: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Peters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grundy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sheppard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thomack QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

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
Rivermoor0.6 miles8
Reighmoor0.8 miles8
Butte des Morts3.0 miles8
Highland Shore3.1 miles8
Nichols Shore Acres3.3 miles8
Plummer Point3.4 miles8
Winneconne3.5 miles8
Omro3.5 miles8

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 Harbor SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5654673The 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 1577628. 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.