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Oakwood, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Algoma town. It lies in ZIP code area 54904. The Survey maps it on the Oshkosh quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Oakwood within Winnebago County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

25 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Oakwood between 2003 and 2020, burning about 412 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources205308
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources205595
10 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources284
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184525
26 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources185073
12 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184656
25 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources204206
24 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources89

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Oakwood: 4 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
Last PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Newell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Eureka QuarryStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Grundy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sheppard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thomack QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Vulcan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Sunset Point1.0 miles9
Melrose Park1.0 miles9
Leonards Point1.0 miles9
Shangri La Point1.4 miles9
Highland Shore1.5 miles8
Plummer Point3.2 miles8
Oshkosh3.5 miles9
Reighmoor3.8 miles8

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 OakwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7074277The 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 1570716. 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.