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Sugar Bush, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Maple Creek town. It lies in ZIP code area 54961. The Survey maps it on the New London quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Sugar Bush within Outagamie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Bush between 1994 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMERGER FIRE
2 June 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGARDEN PATCH
8 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPLEASANT VIEW
18 May 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 May 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFENCER
1 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOLLIER ROAD FIRE
1 May 2010Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUEHLOW RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Outagamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Bush: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
A Matz Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
B Duch Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Breiting Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
C Flanagan Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Finger Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sasse Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sugar Bush Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Outagamie County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sugar Bush in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSugar Bush-A spotter measured a 58 mph thunderstorm wind gust north of New London, near Sugar Bush.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSugar Bush-Thunderstorm winds knocked several trees onto a shed and a garage in the Town of Maine.

Every storm recorded in Outagamie 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
Bear Creek3.5 miles7
Shiocton8.7 miles8
Stephensville11.0 miles8
Hortonville11.4 miles7
Leeman11.5 miles8
Binghamton14.4 miles8
Dale14.7 miles7
Black Creek15.1 miles8

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 Sugar BushAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7634764The 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 1575012. 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.