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North Cape, Wisconsin

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Raymond Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53126. The Survey maps it on the North Cape quadrangle.

North Cape within Racine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

In the county-history sources

5,635 words on this township

Official Record of the Old Settlers Society of Racine County, Wisconsin : with the Historical Address of Charles E. Dyer, Delivered at Burlington, Wis., February 22, 1871, published 1871 names this settlement in its chapter on Raymond Village. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Among the very first settlers in Raymond, were Nathaniel Rogers and his son Joel Rogers. They were living there, on the arrival of Elisha Raymond, Sen., and his son, Alvin Raymond, who made their settlements in the town, on the 22d of September, 1835. Mr. Raymond, Sen., and his son Alvin, came on the vessel " Agnes Barton ," to Chicago, and from Chicago to Racine, on a little schooner manned by a Frenchman and two Indians. Upon their first tour into Raymond, they found the branch of Root River, which extends into the town, a full, clear stream, with a gravelly bottom, pleasant banks and unbroken current. Mr. Alvin Raymond in the following October, went to the Rapids and labored a year for Wm. See. Mr. Elisha Raymond bought a claim already made, covering a quarter section, for $25. He immediately rolled up some logs in cabin shape, put on some shakes for a roof, and lived there through the winter of 1835-36.

Passage source: Official Record of the Old Settlers Society of Racine County, Wisconsin : with the Historical Address of Charles E. Dyer, Delivered at Burlington, Wis., February 22, 1871, published 1871.

Nelson Bentley also arrived and settled in Raymond, in June, 1836. He drove a double team and wagon all the way from Manlius, N. Y. He and Seneca Raymond left Manlius on the same day, and both arrived at Racine on the same day, one coming by water from Oswego, and the other by his own conveyance, each making the journey in precisely six weeks.

Passage source: Official Record of the Old Settlers Society of Racine County, Wisconsin : with the Historical Address of Charles E. Dyer, Delivered at Burlington, Wis., February 22, 1871, published 1871.

In the summer of 1836, Mr. Raymond, Sr., built a capaccious two story log house on his claim. A stone chimney was built in the house from the ground floor, and it gives one a happy feeling to know of such comfort in a wilderness, as wras afforded in that house by the great old fashioned fire place with which it was provided.

Passage source: Official Record of the Old Settlers Society of Racine County, Wisconsin : with the Historical Address of Charles E. Dyer, Delivered at Burlington, Wis., February 22, 1871, published 1871.

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 Raymond Village - it names this place 8 more 8 times.

Fires near this place

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of North Cape between 2018 and 2020, burning about 14 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony1
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
2 August 2020Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20065
2 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20028
26 April 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18037
9 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources111
5 March 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18019
29 March 2019Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19022
23 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18023
23 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18024

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Racine County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Cape in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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 2026Tornado (EF0)North Cape$17,000Tornado started near Raynor Ave and tracked to the northeast while crossing 5 Mile and 6 Mile Rd before ending near 7 Mile Rd. Most damage was minor but some sheet metal was lofted from a barn. Tornado tracked just to the east of the Milwaukee Airport Terminal Doppler Radar.
July 2009HailNorth Cape-Hail, estimated to be 1 inch in diameter, fell in a 2-mile wide swath from southwest of North Cape to north of Union Grove.
April 2026HailNorth Cape-no account filed
April 2006HailNorth Cape-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindNorth Cape-no account filed
September 2000FloodNorth Cape-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindNorth Cape-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Racine 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
Beaumont3.3 miles18
Yorkville3.4 miles18
Raymond3.5 miles17
Union Church4.5 miles17
Kneeland4.7 miles17
Lorimar Estates5.5 miles19
Eagle Lake5.8 miles19
Wind Lake5.8 miles18

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 CapeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7054356The 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 1570404. 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.

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.