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Hickory Grove, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cooperstown town. It lies in ZIP code area 54227. The Survey maps it on the Denmark quadrangle. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Hickory Grove within Manitowoc County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Grove between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
29 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources13
19 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources24
1 May 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources21
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources113718
29 April 2018Fireworks1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20
26 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18
22 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources25

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manitowoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hickory Grove: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Fels PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Manitowoc 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
Rosecrans2.6 miles8
Maribel3.5 miles8
Cooperstown5.0 miles8
Menchalville5.1 miles9
Kellnersville6.1 miles9
Melnik7.3 miles8
Taus7.5 miles9
Maple Grove8.1 miles9

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 Hickory GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5751164The 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 1577640. 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.