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Red Banks, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Scott town. It lies in ZIP code area 54311. The Survey maps it on the New Franken quadrangle. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Red Banks within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Red Banks between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2063
29 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18062
2 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2032
6 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18030
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18029
16 April 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2024
4 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2087

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Red Banks: 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. 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
De Jardin MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
De Jardin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mertens 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bay Settlement QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Keuken QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mill No. 8Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Number 3 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quarry No. 8 and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Township of Scott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Brown 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
Benderville0.4 miles9
Edgewater Beach2.0 miles9
Wequiock3.2 miles11
Champion4.0 miles9
Bay Settlement4.3 miles11
Dyckesville5.8 miles8
New Franken5.9 miles9
Chapel Ridge5.9 miles11

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 Red BanksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7303698The 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 1572129. 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.