North Bay, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Liberty Grove town. It lies in ZIP code area 54202. It stands on Three Springs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sister Bay quadrangle.

North Bay within Door County

On record in North Bay

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 2 records

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

BOAZ (schooner) Shipwrecklisted 2023 · 0.5 miles away
Sunshine Shipwreck (Scow Schooner)listed 2023 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1954 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Sister Bay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1981 USGS Marinette quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Sister Bay quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

4,444 words on this township

History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917 names this settlement in its chapter on Liberty Grove Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

North Bay was another great shipping point in early days. As early as 1870 a postoffice was established there with J. L. Ramsay as postmaster. North Bay did a large business for many years and its enterprising promoters hoped to make it the business center of Northern Door County. In 1880 Richard Erwin & Co. owned 5,000 acres of land there and systematically advertised for settlers. Wm. Marshall was their manager. Now he is the only remnant of the business that once made this picturesque harbor famous in marine circles.

Passage source: History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Liberty Grove Town.

Fires near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of North Bay between 1998 and 2020, burning about 93 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
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
23 June 1998	Debris and open burning	88 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	170
15 April 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	132
4 February 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	44
19 February 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	64
2 December 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	473
19 December 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	493

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Door County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of North Bay: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Becker Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Door Pit North	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Josephs Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Door 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
Sister Bay	3.5 miles	8
Ephraim	4.6 miles	8
Rowleys Bay	5.7 miles	8
Baileys Harbor	6.0 miles	8
Ellison Bay	7.5 miles	8
Fish Creek	8.8 miles	8
Gills Rock	10.4 miles	8
Northport	11.4 miles	10

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 North Bay	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q49386653	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 1570354. 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.