BlockBefore

Sherwood Forest, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Brooklyn town. It lies in ZIP code area 54941. The Survey maps it on the Green Lake quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Sherwood Forest within Green Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Sherwood Forest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 201 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 burning57
Equipment and vehicle use39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Fireworks6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 1996Debris and open burning1.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOWER VS BIRD
25 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sherwood Forest: 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 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
Chier St Marie Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ferris PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kepe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nowaske Gettleman & Broder PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Green Lake 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
Sandstone Bluff1.2 miles10
Green Lake1.3 miles10
Tuleta Hills1.6 miles10
Indian Hills2.0 miles10
Pleasant Point2.3 miles10
Spring Grove2.3 miles10
Forest Glen Beach2.6 miles10
Center House3.1 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q7495527The 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 1843811. 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.