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Inlet, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Delavan town. It lies in ZIP code area 53115. It stands on Jackson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elkhorn quadrangle. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Inlet within Walworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Inlet between 2018 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
3 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources222
15 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources241
14 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources239
1 June 2019Natural1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1906001
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources58
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804008
28 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources171
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources64

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Inlet: 7 past producers, 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Ames PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Community PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Harness PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Home PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hopkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hopkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jolliffe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mann Brothers, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mauritz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Walworth 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
Lake Lawn0.5 miles19
East Delavan1.8 miles19
Delavan3.1 miles19
Elkhorn3.8 miles19
Delavan Lake3.9 miles19
Williams Bay4.1 miles19
Lake Como5.1 miles19
Fontana5.3 miles19

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 InletAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6034917The 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 1566941. 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.