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Pensaukee, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pensaukee town. It lies in ZIP code area 54153. It stands on Pensaukee River. The Survey maps it on the Pensaukee quadrangle. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Pensaukee within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

80 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Pensaukee between 1993 and 2020, burning about 332 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning33
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Other causes4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY RD. J
31 July 2012Debris and open burning35 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBELLE BRIDGE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pensaukee: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Shuch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oconto County Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Snyder Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pensaukee in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPensaukee$1,000no account filed
April 1996Tornado (F0)Pensaukee$1,000no account filed
April 2020HailPensaukee-Nickel size hail fell in Pensaukee.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPensaukee-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in the towns of Oconto, Little River and Pensaukee. The time of this event was estimated based on radar data.
April 2003HailPensaukee-no account filed
May 1995HailPensaukee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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
Oak Orchard3.0 miles8
Brookside4.7 miles8
Oconto5.1 miles8
Stiles7.6 miles8
Stiles Junction8.2 miles8
Abrams8.3 miles8
Little Suamico8.9 miles6
Cullen10.1 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 PensaukeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7164723The 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 1571183. 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.