Hatton, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lind town. It lies in ZIP code area 54983. It stands on Hatton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weyauwega quadrangle. It stands 791 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hatton within Waupaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

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

Fires near this place

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Hatton (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 548 acres in total. 4 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	57
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Arson/incendiarism	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Other causes	4
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	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
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WEGA HILL FIRE
24 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HAULING
9 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	EAST
6 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	YOGI
6 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.8 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WEST
5 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SUMMER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca 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
Evanswood	3.7 miles	7
Weyauwega	5.2 miles	7
Gills Landing	6.3 miles	7
Fremont	6.6 miles	8
Red Banks	7.0 miles	8
Little Hope	7.5 miles	8
Parfreyville	8.4 miles	8
Waupaca	8.5 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 Hatton (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5682136	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 1850467. 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.