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Kingsbridge, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Kossuth town. It lies in ZIP code area 54241. The Survey maps it on the Mishicot quadrangle. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Kingsbridge within Manitowoc 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kingsbridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1

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 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources47
3 June 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources7595
5 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources29
8 April 1997Debris and open burning3.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources39
1 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources37

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manitowoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Kingsbridge: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Rockwell QuarryCalciumProducer
Gretz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Q PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schuette Construction Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Yanda PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Manitowoc County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingsbridge in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindKingsbridge$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees on County Road Q, between Lorenz Road and Beagle Lane. One tree, about 13 inches in diameter, landed on a power line. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.

Every storm recorded in Manitowoc 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
Fisherville2.0 miles8
Francis Creek2.3 miles8
Mishicot2.9 miles8
Shoto3.0 miles8
Rockwood3.3 miles8
Melnik4.2 miles8
Larrabee4.3 miles8
Kellners Corners6.1 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 KingsbridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6413130The 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 1577678. 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.