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Jennings, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Schoepke town. It lies in ZIP code area 54463. The Survey maps it on the Nashville quadrangle. It stands 1,614 feet above sea level.

Jennings within Oneida County

On record in Jennings

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Jennings between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 were 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 burning27
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Fireworks4
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPILE
7 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2009Recreation and ceremony3.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJACK PINE LANE
5 July 2002Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 1998Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida 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 Jennings: 5 occurrences, 5 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper. 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
Mole Lake ProspectZinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, GoldUnknown
Wolf River ProspectZinc, CopperUnknown
Bishop Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Mud Creek Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pelican Lake Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Pelican Lake Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Pelican Lake Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Pergande Road Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pergande Road Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pratt Junction Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Oneida 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
Lennox0.3 miles9
Pelican Lake5.1 miles10
Pratt Junction5.2 miles10
Monico6.5 miles8
Enterprise9.9 miles10
Gagen11.3 miles9
Malvern13.2 miles9
Starks13.3 miles9

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 JenningsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714487The 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 1577663. 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.