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Ourtown, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lima town. It lies in ZIP code area 53085. It stands on Stoney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sheboygan Falls quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Ourtown within Sheboygan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Ourtown between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2402
31 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2360
13 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1847
10 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1679
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1469
4 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1310
12 May 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources23
10 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1518

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan 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
Sheboygan Falls2.3 miles10
Kennedys Corners (historical)3.0 miles10
Gibbsville3.1 miles10
Kohler3.6 miles10
Indian Meadows4.3 miles9
Oostburg5.3 miles8
Hingham6.4 miles9
Sheboygan6.8 miles9

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 OurtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7111319The 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 1570950. 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.