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Little Suamico, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Little Suamico town. It lies in ZIP code area 54141. It stands on Tibbet Creek. The Survey maps it on the Suamico quadrangle. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Little Suamico within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Little Suamico between 1992 and 2020, burning about 113 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning60
Equipment and vehicle use36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2
Natural1

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
15 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY J DITCH FIRE
14 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSANDALWOOD ROAD FIRE
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources100324
7 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto 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 Little Suamico: 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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
Tri-County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Jackie Foster Incorporated QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Montevideo QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Suamico in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLittle Suamico-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees around Little Suamico.
July 2012HailLittle Suamico-Quarter size hail fell in Little Suamico.

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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
Sobieski Corners2.3 miles6
Sobieski3.3 miles6
Abrams5.0 miles8
Brookside6.0 miles8
Oak Orchard6.2 miles8
South Chase7.8 miles6
Chase7.8 miles6
Pensaukee8.9 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 SuamicoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6652086The 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 1568434. 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.