Shoemaker Point, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Union town. It lies in ZIP code area 54204. It stands on Renard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Namur quadrangle. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Shoemaker Point within Door County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Namur quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Sturgeon Bay quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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 Shoemaker Point between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 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
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2020	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	45
8 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	43
18 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	38
18 June 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	33
8 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	26
2 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	21
6 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20
26 October 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	62

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Door 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 Shoemaker Point: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Macco Creek Dolomite Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Charles Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit No 7 - Brussels	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Swampside Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Namur	2.9 miles	9
Brussels	5.4 miles	8
Misere (historical)	6.5 miles	8
Rosiere	6.5 miles	8
Kolberg	9.1 miles	8
Little Sturgeon	11.7 miles	7
Maplewood	12.9 miles	8
Forestville	13.0 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 Shoemaker Point	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7500039	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 1574066. 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.