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Kolb, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Ledgeview town. It lies in ZIP code area 54115. The Survey maps it on the Bellevue quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Kolb within Brown 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Kolb between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 June 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201324
20 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources191434
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources261
14 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources4219
18 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources437
24 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources181899
24 October 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources182253

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Kolb: 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
De Pere PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Decleen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boulanger MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Boulanger QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Butnick Quarry Ulmen #4Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ira Nickel Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Leo Scray MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Leo Scray QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Skalecki Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kolb in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 1 hail, 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindKolb-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Bellevue. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2012HailKolb-Thunderstorms produced dime to nickel size hail for about 10 minutes south of Green Bay, near Kolb.

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Bellevue2.7 miles10
Glenmore3.2 miles10
Pine Grove4.0 miles10
Shirley4.6 miles9
Allouez4.7 miles10
Preble5.2 miles10
De Pere5.5 miles10
Langes Corners6.0 miles9

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 KolbAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6427098The 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 1567607. 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.