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Okauchee, Wisconsin

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lac La Belle Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53069. It lies near McDowell Island. The Survey maps it on the Oconomowoc East quadrangle. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Okauchee within Waukesha County

On record in Okauchee

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 23 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Okauchee between 2018 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1
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
21 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1802995
19 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1839
30 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801911
2 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources125
1 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources124
4 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800908
30 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800130
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800131

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Okauchee: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
North Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Silver Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Vogt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Okauchee in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 1 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2022Thunderstorm WindOkauchee$5,000Multiple trees and power lines down.
July 2017HailOkauchee-no account filed
July 2003Heavy RainOkauchee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Okauchee Lake0.7 miles23
Oconomowoc Lake1.4 miles23
Nashotah2.1 miles23
Chenequa2.3 miles23
Stonebank2.4 miles22
Summit Corners3.1 miles23
Oconomowoc3.4 miles23
Delafield4.0 miles23

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.

Wikidata item Q122545906The 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 1570761. 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.

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.