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South Kenosha, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Kenosha City. It lies in ZIP code area 53158. The Survey maps it on the Kenosha quadrangle.

South Kenosha within Kenosha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Kenosha city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879 - Kenosha City

Miscellaneous

The Hanging of John McCaffrey. - Capital punishment, as is known, is prohibited by statute in Wisconsin. In two cases only, has it been enforced, and one of these occurred in Kenosha County, when John McCaffrey suffered the extreme penalty of the law, for the murder of his wife. The crime was committed on the night of Monday, July 22, 1850.

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In the county-history sources

31,974 words on this township

The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Kenosha City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Kenosha City - 31,974 words.

Fires near this place

18 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of South Kenosha between 2018 and 2020, burning about 15 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/undetermined11
Smoking5
Debris and open burning1
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
9 September 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8369
24 August 2020Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources7960
31 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources7106
25 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources6908
25 July 2020Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources6897
10 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1383
3 June 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5072
15 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1198

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kenosha 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 South Kenosha: 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vermiculite. 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
Koos Inc. PlantVermiculitePlant
Kd Pit Yard 28Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ponderosa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kenosha County

Storms near this place

3 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Kenosha in 3 storm reports in 2025: 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025HailSouth Kenosha-no account filed
May 2025HailSouth Kenosha-no account filed
May 2025HailSouth Kenosha-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kenosha 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
Shorecrest Pointe0.7 miles16
Timber Ridge1.4 miles16
Tobin2.3 miles16
Carol Beach2.3 miles16
Kenosha3.1 miles16
State Line3.2 miles16
Truesdell4.0 miles14
Westwood Estates4.2 miles14

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 Q122542509The 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 1574461. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.