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Holy Cross, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Belgium town. It lies in ZIP code area 53004. The Survey maps it on the Port Washington West quadrangle. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Holy Cross within Ozaukee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Holy Cross between 1995 and 2020, burning about 8 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6

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
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources125
30 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources113
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18017
26 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources71
1 May 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources110
8 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18005
6 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources57
21 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1041

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozaukee 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 Holy Cross: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hamm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hartmann PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ozaukee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holy Cross in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHoly Cross$2,000Trees down in the vicinity of County Roads B and A.

Every storm recorded in Ozaukee 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
Decker1.8 miles13
Druecker2.5 miles13
Fredonia2.9 miles12
Belgium3.1 miles13
Knellsville4.1 miles13
Lake Church4.5 miles13
Waubeka5.0 miles12
Port Washington5.8 miles12

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 Holy CrossAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5885052The 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 1566584. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.