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Nichols Shore Acres, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oshkosh town. It lies in ZIP code area 54904. It stands on Daggets Creek. The Survey maps it on the Omro quadrangle.

Nichols Shore Acres within Winnebago County

On record in Nichols Shore Acres

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Nichols Shore Acres between 2003 and 2020, burning about 410 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined7
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202039
10 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources284
22 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018028
4 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY H #1
12 May 2020Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202018
3 April 2019Smoking4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19049
20 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources160
29 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201812

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago 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 Nichols Shore Acres: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Peters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Broehm QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Doro QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Grundy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sheppard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thomack QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

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
Butte des Morts0.8 miles8
Plummer Point0.9 miles8
Allenville2.7 miles10
Shangri La Point2.7 miles9
Rivermoor3.0 miles8
Highland Shore3.2 miles8
Reighmoor3.3 miles8
Harbor Springs3.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1570283. 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.