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Luco, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Fond du Lac town. It lies in ZIP code area 54935. It stands on Luco Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fond du Lac quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Luco within Fond du Lac County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Luco between 1993 and 2020, burning about 530 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources63
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018086
6 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184343
30 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources74
4 May 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources23
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018040
10 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources183034
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018037

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fond du Lac County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Luco: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Silica QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Abler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fond Du Lac PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Fuhrmann PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
John L. Schmitz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fond du Lac 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
Taycheedah1.4 miles13
Hopokoekau Beach2.2 miles13
Fond du Lac2.4 miles13
Peebles2.5 miles13
North Fond du Lac3.5 miles13
Minawa Beach3.7 miles13
Linden Beach4.4 miles12
Saint Peter4.8 miles12

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 LucoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q25025385The 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 1568789. 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.