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Kelly Brook, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Spruce town. It lies in ZIP code area 54139. It stands on Daly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oconto Falls North quadrangle. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Kelly Brook within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

113 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Kelly Brook between 1993 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning36
Equipment and vehicle use35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
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
7 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDITCH MOWING FIRE
29 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCLAYWOOD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kelly Brook: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Valley Line Road Ls QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelly Brook in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2020HailKelly Brook-Half dollar size hail fell near Hickory Corners.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindKelly Brook-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees northwest of Oconto Falls.

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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
Spruce2.8 miles8
Hickory Corners3.7 miles9
Frostville6.6 miles9
Gillett6.9 miles6
Oconto Falls7.1 miles8
Klondike8.0 miles10
Suring8.7 miles6
Lena9.0 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 Kelly BrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6385958The 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 1577674. 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.