Rio Creek, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lincoln town. It lies in ZIP code area 54201. The Survey maps it on the Casco quadrangle. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Rio Creek within Kewaunee 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 Casco quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Casco quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Sturgeon Bay quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rio Creek in 2019, burning under an acre 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	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 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	9900039

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Rio Creek: 15 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Alaska Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Algoma Gravel Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Algoma Gravel Pit #4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
C Lohney Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Casco Gravel Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dettman Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
E Larsen Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
E Larson Gravel Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
E Larson Gravel Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
H Neuzil Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kewaunee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rio Creek in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 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
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rio Creek	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree onto power lines, which then caught fire.
July 2007	Hail	Rio Creek	-	Penny size hail was reported at the airport.
July 2000	Hail	Rio Creek	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kewaunee 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
Gregorville	2.0 miles	8
Rankin	2.1 miles	8
Euren	3.8 miles	8
Bruemmerville	4.0 miles	8
Alaska	4.0 miles	8
Slovan	4.6 miles	8
Casco	4.6 miles	8
Kodan	5.5 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 Rio Creek	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7335184	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 1572331. 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.