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Kodan, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ahnapee town. It lies in ZIP code area 54201. The Survey maps it on the Forestville quadrangle. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Kodan within Kewaunee 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Kodan between 2018 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
2 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources9900039
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources87
25 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources101
30 May 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources85
17 May 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources78
5 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources17
15 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources23

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Kodan: 17 past producers, 6 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Door Quarry SouthStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Algoma Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Algoma Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Algoma Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Algoma Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Algoma Gravel Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
B Wilke Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blahnik Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
C Alexander Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
C Lohney Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kewaunee 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
Gregorville3.9 miles8
Bruemmerville4.0 miles8
Rankin4.5 miles8
Algoma5.0 miles8
Rio Creek5.5 miles8
Euren6.3 miles8
Lincoln8.2 miles8
Alaska8.3 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 KodanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6425202The 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 1577681. 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.