Perote, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Menominee town. The Survey maps it on the Perote Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Perote within Menominee 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.

1952 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Perote Lake quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Wabeno quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Perote (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
16 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Menominee Tribe	DRY LAKE FIRE
12 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Menominee Tribe	BRIGHAM
9 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HIGHWAY M HALF CAN
3 May 2002	Other causes	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 May 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 May 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	OLD DUMP

Every fire recorded in Menominee 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Zoar	7.0 miles	8
Neopit	7.7 miles	7
Middle Village	11.5 miles	8
Keshena Falls	16.0 miles	8
Keshena	17.2 miles	8
Legend Lake	18.6 miles	8

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 Perote (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7169481	The 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 1831785. 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.