BlockBefore

Klondike, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Brazeau town. It lies in ZIP code area 54112. It lies near Mount LeBett. The Survey maps it on the Kelly Lake quadrangle. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Klondike within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Klondike between 1992 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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 burning43
Equipment and vehicle use30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
18 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLIE RD. FIRE
8 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto 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 Klondike: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Coleman Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Coleman Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
School Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Klondike in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 WindKlondike$350,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees along Highway 64 between Pound and Mountain.
May 2022Flash FloodKlondike$335,000Several rounds of thunderstorms dumped upwards of 7 inches of rain over central Oconto County during the late afternoon and evening hours. This caused damage to area roads, bridges, culverts, and parks across the central part of the county as well as several area roads to be washed out. The hardest hit areas were in or near the city of Spruce and north of Gillett.
June 1998LightningKlondike$50,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindKlondike-Thunderstorm winds produced wind damage to a barn near White Potato Lake. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindKlondike-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in the Township of Brazeau.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindKlondike-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near White Potato Lake. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
August 2002HailKlondike-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindKlondike-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindKlondike-no account filed

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
Hickory Corners6.6 miles9
Spruce8.0 miles8
Kelly Brook8.0 miles8
Frostville9.8 miles9
Lena10.1 miles8
Suring12.2 miles6
Logan12.8 miles9
Oconto Falls13.4 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 KlondikeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6421254The 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 1567553. 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.