Keshena Falls, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Menominee town. It lies in ZIP code area 54135. It stands on Chickney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Keshena quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Keshena Falls within Menominee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1954 USGS Shawano quadrangle1:48000
1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Shawano quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1982 USGS Keshena quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Shawano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

412 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 412 fires within 5 miles of Keshena Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 49 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 burning	87
Misuse of fire by a minor	80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	61
Arson/incendiarism	49
Fireworks	44
Recreation and ceremony	27
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Power generation/transmission/distribution	15
Smoking	14
Other causes	7
Natural	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Menominee Tribe	COOPWHERE'
7 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	4.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 September 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Menominee Tribe	POWERLINE
24 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Menominee Tribe	FOX RIDGE
9 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Menominee Tribe	PINE RIDGE
9 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee 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 Keshena Falls: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Montoure Road Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Keshena	1.3 miles	8
Legend Lake	4.0 miles	8
Middle Village	5.3 miles	8
Neopit	11.2 miles	7
Zoar	15.5 miles	8
Perote (historical)	16.0 miles	8

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 Keshena Falls	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6395015	The 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 1567431. 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.