BlockPickett, Wisconsin
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Utica town. It lies in ZIP code area 54964. The Survey maps it on the Pickett quadrangle. It stands 889 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Pickett quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
12 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Pickett between 1996 and 2020, burning about 405 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 72 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | ROSENDALE |
| 7 May 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | UIHLEIN |
| 9 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | VEG FIRE |
| 6 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 33 |
| 4 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | COOP FIRE |
| 24 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 36 |
| 18 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 140 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pickett in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2014: 4 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2014 | Hail | Pickett | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Pickett. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Pickett | - | Quarter size hail fell in Pickett. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Pickett | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pickett | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Pickett | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pickett | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Pickett | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7190857 | 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 1571335. 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.
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.