Saint Catherines Bay, 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 54129. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stockbridge quadrangle. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Saint Catherines Bay within Calumet County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

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

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Saint Catherines Bay between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12 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/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
14 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	47
23 May 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	31
19 April 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 March 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	427

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calumet County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Saint Catherines Bay: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
J and E Quarries	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lefeber Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mueller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Calumet 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
Rockaway Beach	1.0 miles	10
Sunset Beach	1.3 miles	10
Stockbridge	1.6 miles	10
Dorns Faro Springs Beach	2.7 miles	10
Dorns Twilight Beach	3.0 miles	10
Harrison (historical)	3.9 miles	11
Kloten	4.5 miles	10
Quinney	4.8 miles	10

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 Saint Catherines Bay	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7401091	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 1572885. 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.