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Sunrise Bay, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Neenah town. It lies in ZIP code area 54956. The Survey maps it on the Neenah quadrangle. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Sunrise Bay within Winnebago County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

In the county-history sources

118 words on this township

History of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and Early History of the Northwest, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Neenah Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Neenah Town - 118 words.

Fires near this place

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Sunrise Bay between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 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/undetermined8
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
15 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources112
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1711
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1386
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources96
12 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1485
19 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1260
13 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1218
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources358

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago 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 Sunrise Bay: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Deitz QuarryStoneUnknown
Badger Highway Menasha QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schultz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Winnebago 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
Rainbow Beach0.6 miles12
Adella Beach1.9 miles12
Neenah2.0 miles12
Menasha2.7 miles12
Ricker Bay2.8 miles12
Brighton Beach2.9 miles12
Waverly Beach3.7 miles12
Fox Crossing4.6 miles12

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 Sunrise BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7641063The 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 1575106. 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.