North Shore, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Sumner town. It lies in ZIP code area 53538. The Survey maps it on the Busseyville quadrangle. It stands 787 feet above sea level.

North Shore within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1891 USGS Koshkonong quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Koshkonong quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1906 USGS Koshkonong quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Busseyville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Fort Atkinson quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Lake Geneva quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

1,406 words on this township

The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sumner Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sumner Town - 1,406 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of North Shore between 2013 and 2020, burning about 23 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
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	132
22 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	107
31 March 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1903267
18 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	72
29 November 2013	Debris and open burning	7.2 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	DEAD END

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of North Shore: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Poyers Quarry	Stone	Unknown
	Wolf Construction Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Lake Koshkonong	0.1 miles	18
Blackhawk Island	1.7 miles	18
Koshkonong Manor	2.2 miles	18
Vinnie Ha Ha	2.3 miles	18
Koshkonong Mounds	2.6 miles	19
Carcajou	2.7 miles	18
Busseyville	3.7 miles	18
Koshkonong	4.5 miles	19

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 Shore	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7056649	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 1570501. 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.