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Salona, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Clay Banks town. It lies in ZIP code area 54235. It stands on Woodard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Algoma NE quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Salona within Door 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Salona between 2019 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources87
8 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources580
18 June 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources623
30 May 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources85
28 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources64
8 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1418
7 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1405

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Door County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Salona: 4 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bissen QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Door Pit SouthSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mohr PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Trodahl Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Door 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
Vignes1.7 miles8
Carnot4.3 miles8
Sturgeon Bay6.2 miles7
Maplewood6.5 miles8
Stevens Hill6.6 miles8
Forestville7.6 miles8
Kolberg10.4 miles8
Idlewild10.5 miles7

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 SalonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7405692The 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 1578073. 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.