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Moquah, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Pilsen town. It lies in ZIP code area 54806. It stands on Little Pine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moquah quadrangle. It stands 850 feet above sea level.

Moquah within Bayfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Moquah between 1992 and 2019, burning about 145 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes2
Natural1
Smoking1

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
5 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestGRAVEL PIT
18 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCHERRYVILLE ROAD
4 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUVULA SPOT
4 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUVULA RAVINE
29 July 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestRETIREMENT
17 July 2001Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 137

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bayfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Moquah: 10 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Alfred J. Schneider Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bayfield County Sand Deposit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Frank Yachinich Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iron River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
John D. Hare Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
John Lunda Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Joseph Galik Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Joseph J. Mihalk Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lillian Ottman Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Moquah Grael Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bayfield County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moquah in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindMoquah-Numerous trees were down in the vicinity of Fish Creek Hill on Old US 2. Some of the trees were tall pine trees.
June 2018Flash FloodMoquah-A bridge over south Fish Creek was damaged on US Highway 63 just south of US Highway 2. Both US 2 and US 63 were closed due to cars driving onto flooded roadways and becoming stranded.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMoquah-Groves of trees were flattened to the west-northwest of Birch Grove Campground near Forest Road 437.
March 2025HailMoquah-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMoquah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bayfield 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
Benoit4.7 miles12
Ino5.8 miles13
Ashland Junction5.9 miles13
Barksdale8.7 miles13
Mason9.4 miles8
Sutherland10.4 miles11
Pike River11.3 miles11
Delta12.0 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 MoquahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6908849The 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 1579912. 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.