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Loomis, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 54159. The Survey maps it on the Loomis quadrangle. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

Loomis within Marinette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Loomis between 1992 and 2019, burning about 238 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning36
Equipment and vehicle use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
16 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesALFALFA
12 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDUMKE FIRE
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources24TH ROAD FIRE
22 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2010Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFLAMING ANTS FIRE
19 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marinette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Loomis: 20 past producers, 7 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. 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
Boggy Lane Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brookside Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crivitz Gravel Deposit # 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Crivitz Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Crivitz Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dancing Waters Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Distant Ridge Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravelly Brook Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gravelly Brook Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Green Pastures Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marinette County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loomis in 2 storm reports in 2000: 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
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLoomis-no account filed
July 2000HailLoomis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marinette 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
Porterfield6.1 miles10
Crivitz6.4 miles10
Walsh7.3 miles10
Beaver7.3 miles10
Harmony7.7 miles10
Middle Inlet8.4 miles9
Rubys Corner8.5 miles9
Bagley Junction8.7 miles10

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 LoomisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6675570The 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 1568616. 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.