Hintz, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Underhill town. It lies in ZIP code area 54124. It stands on Linzy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berry Lake quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Hintz within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Gillett quadrangle1:62500
1974 USGS Berry Lake quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Shawano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Hintz between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	4
Fireworks	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1
Natural	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
5 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	1.1 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 August 2018	Other causes	under an acre	Menominee Tribe	EAST LINE
14 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	KLAUS ROAD
9 July 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	COUNTY H HAY BAILER FIRE
6 July 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hintz: 2 producers. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gillett Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Klatt Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oconto 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
Underhill	3.1 miles	6
Mosling	3.9 miles	6
Gillett	5.7 miles	6
Hayes	5.8 miles	6
Suring	6.1 miles	6
Frostville	7.6 miles	9
Hickory Corners	10.3 miles	9
Kelly Brook	10.7 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 Hintz	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5767738	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 1566485. 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.