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Little Rapids, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Lawrence town. It lies in ZIP code area 54115. The Survey maps it on the Oneida South quadrangle. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Little Rapids within Brown County

On record in Little Rapids

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

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Little Rapids between 2018 and 2020, burning about 10 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/undetermined4

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
31 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources33
22 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources54
20 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources191434
15 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20059
28 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20053
6 April 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources150
18 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20041
11 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources35

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Little Rapids: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Daanen and JanssenStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ebben QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Rapids in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 1 lightning, 1 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 2012LightningLittle Rapids$5,000Five residents of a house had to be evacuated when it filled with smoke after being struck by lightning.
September 2021HailLittle Rapids-Ping pong size hail fell near Little Rapids. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLittle Rapids-Thunderstorm winds uprooted or damaged 20 trees on the Fox River.

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
Sniderville3.9 miles8
Wrightstown4.2 miles8
Greenleaf4.9 miles8
West De Pere5.3 miles10
De Pere5.9 miles10
Askeaton7.7 miles8
Ashwaubenon7.7 miles10
Hobart8.3 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 Little RapidsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6651466The 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 1568375. 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.