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Medina Junction, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Clayton town. It lies in ZIP code area 54956. The Survey maps it on the Oshkosh NE quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Medina Junction within Winnebago County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

24 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Medina Junction between 2005 and 2020, burning about 440 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources60
29 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3
23 June 2018Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources88
9 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources71
9 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources63
4 May 2019Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources56
16 May 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2009
16 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources66

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Medina Junction: 13 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Perry QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
F Acheson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Greenville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Island Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J Jentz Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J R Lathrop Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jentz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
John Kelly Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Julius Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Larsen PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Winnebago 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
Larsen2.9 miles10
Winchester3.3 miles8
Allenville6.9 miles10
Fox Crossing7.3 miles12
Clarks Point7.4 miles8
Piacenza7.5 miles8
Indian Shores7.7 miles8
Lasleys Point8.6 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 Medina JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6806923The 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 1577721. 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.