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Kunesh, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Pittsfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 54313. It stands on West Branch Suamico River. The Survey maps it on the Oneida North quadrangle. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Kunesh within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Kunesh between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
29 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources73260
20 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18077
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18061
24 April 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources163
30 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources50176

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown 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 Kunesh: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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
Peters Trucking Corporation PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
McKeefry & Sons,IncStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quarry Road Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kunesh in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindKunesh-Thunderstorm winds snapped off or uprooted a half dozen trees one mile northeast of Pittsfield on State Highway 32.
July 2012HailKunesh-The thunderstorm that caused wind damage northeast of Pittsfield also produced hail, up to penny size, that covered the ground.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindKunesh-Thunderstorm winds snapped 1 to 2 foot diameter trees, blocking roads near Pittsfield.

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
Anston1.6 miles7
Mill Center2.5 miles7
Pittsfield3.1 miles7
Camelot Terrace3.4 miles6
Flintville4.4 miles6
Pulaski4.8 miles6
Elm Tree Corners6.4 miles9
Tremble6.6 miles6

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 KuneshAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6444412The 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 1567661. 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.