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Jacksonport, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jacksonport town. It lies in ZIP code area 54235. It stands on Hibbard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonport quadrangle. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Jacksonport within Door County

On record in Jacksonport

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

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

2,733 words on this township

History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917 names this settlement in its chapter on Jacksonport Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

If an account could be compiled of that now forgotten period when Jacksonport was occupied by the redmen, its history would probably be more interesting than that of any part of the county. There is no doubt that here in the northeastern part of the town and at the mouth of Hein's Creek, emptying out of Kangaroo Lake, were two or three of the largest and most permanent Indian villages in the county.

Passage source: History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917.

The history of the present Jacksonport is mild and peaceful compared to that of its former occupants. It is a history which deals with cordwood, corn and clover. The first white men came here for the sake of the cordwood and they stayed for the sake of the clover and corn. From being a lightly esteemed slashing in the wilderness Jacksonport has become a highly important and fruitful

Passage source: History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917.

Exactly fifty years ago, in 1867, three men in Madison were busy planning the future of Jacksonport. It was a nameless lakeside forest then but it formed a very definite picture in their minds and they had high hopes that it would become their Eldorado. These three men were Col. C. L. Harris, John Reynolds and Andrew Jackson. Harris and Reynolds had about seven thousand dollars each and were now casting about to see how they might increase these seven thousand to seventy times seven. Andrew Jackson was in charge of the Government Land Office in Menasha and learned of the great abundance of cedar and cordwood near the later village of Jacksonport and of the facilities for water transportation. He suggested that as land and labor were cheap and water transportation was convenient there ought to be a mint of money in the cedar and cordwood business. At that time there was only one settler in the present Town of Jacksonport. This was Perry G. Hibbard, a fisherman who had settled there in 1861, who happened to possess the very tract of land needed for a pier. However, he was persuaded to sell for a good consideration.

Passage source: History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Jacksonport Town - it names this place 9 more 9 times.

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Jacksonport between 2018 and 2019, burning under an 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
Debris and open burning4
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
3 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1926
13 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1932
15 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20
20 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1912

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 Jacksonport: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Lautenbach QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Door County Highway Dept. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Parent PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Door County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonport in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2025Thunderstorm WindJacksonport-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Jacksonport. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindJacksonport-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines around and north of Jacksonport. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2018HailJacksonport-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Jacksonport.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindJacksonport-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Jacksonport. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindJacksonport-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Jacksonport. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindJacksonport-no account filed
June 1998HailJacksonport-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
Whitefish Bay5.3 miles7
Valmy6.4 miles7
Baileys Harbor6.8 miles8
Egg Harbor7.5 miles8
Institute8.0 miles7
Carlsville8.2 miles7
Fish Creek10.8 miles8
Ephraim12.3 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 JacksonportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6117869The 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 1567081. 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.