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Krok, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in West Kewaunee town. It lies in ZIP code area 54216. It stands on Krok Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stangelville quadrangle. It stands 728 feet above sea level.

Krok within Kewaunee County

On record in Krok

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Krok between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 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 burning4
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
30 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources27
13 June 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources115418
8 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources15
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources14
17 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesF200044
5 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000164

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Krok: 12 occurrences, 12 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Boulanger Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cherneyville Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
D Cherney Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Delleman Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Duescher Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
E Brusky Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
E Seidl Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East Krok Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East Krok Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
J Hrabik Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Kewaunee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Krok in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKrok-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Ellisville. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2013HailKrok-Thunderstorms produced half dollar size hail at Krok.

Every storm 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
East Krok1.6 miles8
Ellisville3.4 miles8
Stangelville3.4 miles8
Birchwood3.8 miles8
Norman4.3 miles9
Pilsen5.0 miles8
Cherneyville5.4 miles8
Ryans Corner6.0 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 KrokAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6438794The 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 1577686. 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.