BlockQuinney, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Stockbridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 53014. It stands on Johnson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stockbridge quadrangle. It stands 869 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1911 USGS Neenah quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Neenah quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1974 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Quinney between 2000 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 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 | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 June 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 41 |
| 1 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 31 |
| 14 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 92 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quinney in 1 storm report in 2011: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Quinney | $100,000 | A brief tornado moved off Lake Winnebago and onshore south of Stockbridge just before 9:00 pm CDT (2000 CST). The waterspout was seen as it moved onto the shore, damaging two homes. A three-season room on one of the houses was ripped off the structure (DI 2, DOD 4). The tornado moved northeast and tore off a section of the roof of a large outbuilding (DI 1, DOD 4). The tops of trees were snapped in two areas along the path of the tornado. The average path width was 75 yards. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eckers Lakeland | 1.1 miles | 10 | |
| Dorns Twilight Beach | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Kloten | 2.6 miles | 10 | |
| Brothertown | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Sunset Beach | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Jericho | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Stockbridge | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Maple Heights | 4.0 miles | 12 |
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 Quinney | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7272296 | 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 1577782. 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.