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Institute, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sevastopol town. It lies in ZIP code area 54235. The Survey maps it on the Institute quadrangle. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Institute within Door County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

In the county-history sources

3,874 words on this township

History of Door County, Wisconsin, Together with Biographies of Nearly Seven Hundred Families, and Mention of 4,000 Persons .., published 1881; History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sevastopol Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sevastopol Town - 3,874 words.

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 Institute between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
7 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources671
13 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1932
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources525
17 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources497
26 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources436
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources426
4 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1261

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Door County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Institute: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Serrahn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kiehnau QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Walker Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Door County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Institute in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindInstitute-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines near Sturgeon Bay. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2014HailInstitute-Quarter to ping pong ball size hail caused significant crop damage in a nearly 1.5 mile wide and 3.2 mile long swath southwest and south of Institute. In addition to the large hail, copious amounts of smaller hail accumulated to a depth of three to five inches in some locations. ||Apple, cherry and corn crops in the area each sustained at least a million dollars worth of damage. In addition, damage was also reported to grape and winter wheat crops. Some apple trees were damaged so severely that they need to be replaced.
March 2008Heavy RainInstitute-Heavy rain fell across most of Door County. The highest precipitation totals were 1.98 inches near Sturgeon Bay and 1.95 inches at North Bay.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindInstitute-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Door 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
Valmy1.6 miles7
Whitefish Bay3.8 miles7
Carlsville4.8 miles7
Stevens Hill5.7 miles8
Sturgeon Bay6.3 miles7
Idlewild7.4 miles7
Jacksonport8.0 miles7
Egg Harbor10.6 miles8

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 InstituteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6039093The 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 1566943. 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.