BlockIdlewood Beach, Wisconsin
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Holland town. It lies in ZIP code area 53070. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Grove quadrangle. It stands 584 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Sheboygan Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Cedar Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Sheboygan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Idlewood Beach between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2402 |
| 13 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1847 |
| 24 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1653 |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1119 |
| 24 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1298 |
| 19 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 897 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oostburg | 2.1 miles | 8 | |
| Cedar Grove | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Gibbsville | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Ourtown | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Kennedys Corners (historical) | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Indian Meadows | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Hingham | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Dacada | 8.6 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 Idlewood Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14714472 | 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 1834591. 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.