Nekoosa Junction, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Port Edwards Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54457. It stands on Moccasin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nekoosa quadrangle.

Nekoosa Junction within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:48000
1967 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Nekoosa quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

172 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Nekoosa Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47
Debris and open burning	40
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Recreation and ceremony	12
Arson/incendiarism	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Smoking	7
Other causes	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	4
Fireworks	3

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
6 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ROCKET
4 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PRYNE FIRE
28 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LYNN HILL FIRE
23 September 1998	Other causes	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1832792
16 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Port Edwards	1.6 miles	8
Nekoosa	1.9 miles	8
Wisconsin Rapids	5.0 miles	8
Ceex Haci	5.5 miles	8
Walker	5.8 miles	8
Lake Wazeecha	7.4 miles	8
Cranmoor	7.8 miles	13
Biron	8.3 miles	8

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.

Wikidata item Q122552791

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 1577743. 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.