Sauk Trail Beach, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Belgium town. It lies in ZIP code area 53013. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Grove quadrangle. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

Sauk Trail Beach within Ozaukee 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.

1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Sheboygan Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Cedar Grove quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Sheboygan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sauk Trail Beach between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 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/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
13 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	147
9 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	125
30 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	113
26 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	71
24 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1653
6 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	57
19 April 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	50
18 November 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	212

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozaukee 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
Lake Church	2.4 miles	13
Belgium	3.6 miles	13
Decker	5.4 miles	13
Holy Cross	6.7 miles	12
Druecker	7.3 miles	13
Knellsville	8.9 miles	13
Fredonia	9.2 miles	12
Port Washington	10.7 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 Sauk Trail Beach	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7427249	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 1833612. 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.