BlockLookout, Wisconsin
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dover town. It lies in ZIP code area 54755. It lies in Lookout Valley. The Survey maps it on the Lookout quadrangle. It stands 866 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1932 USGS Gilmanton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Lookout quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Winona quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lookout between 2019 and 2020, burning about 20 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2020000 |
| 16 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 16 |
| 7 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 51 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 23 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Lookout: 16 past producers, 6 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marum Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Lookout Valley Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Mid Valleys Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Bennett Ridge Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Bennett Ridge Shale Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Buell Valley Dolomite Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Creekside Limestone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| D Foley Limestone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Fisken Valley Shale Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Forked Waters Dolomite Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
2 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lookout in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lookout | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Flood | Lookout | $20,000 | Runoff from heavy rains pushed some streams out of their banks across northern Buffalo County. State Highway 37 north and south of Mondovi was briefly closed due to mudslides while County Highway B near Gilmanton was closed because of flooding. |
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.
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 Lookout | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6675456 | The 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 1568613. 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.