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Koepenick, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Upham town. It lies in ZIP code area 54424. The Survey maps it on the Kempster quadrangle. It stands 1,693 feet above sea level.

Koepenick within Langlade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Koepenick between 1992 and 2019, burning about 19 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
26 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesIN THE DITCH
27 August 1993Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 1998Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBOGUS ROAD FIRE
8 May 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Langlade County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Koepenick: 3 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
Black Oak Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Koepenick Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Koepenick Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wooduck Springs Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Langlade 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
Summit Lake3.2 miles10
Kempster3.2 miles10
Elcho6.9 miles10
Deerbrook7.1 miles9
Ormsby7.2 miles11
Neva7.3 miles8
Neva Corners8.1 miles9
Pearson8.2 miles10

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 KoepenickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6425617The 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 1577683. 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.