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Paukotuk, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Black Wolf town. The Survey maps it on the Van Dyne quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Paukotuk within Winnebago County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Paukotuk between 2018 and 2020, burning about 4 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
6 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources205308
26 July 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources195013
26 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources185073
12 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184656
5 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources70
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
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources183214

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Paukotuk: 4 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Vulcan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Last PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Newell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Eureka QuarryStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

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
Stony Beach1.4 miles10
Black Wolf2.1 miles10
Point Comfort3.4 miles12
Black Wolf Point3.8 miles12
Decorah Beach4.0 miles12
Oshkosh4.1 miles9
Little Point4.4 miles12
Fitzgerald5.4 miles10

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 PaukotukAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7148888The 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 1571088. 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.