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Symco, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Union town. It lies in ZIP code area 54949. It stands on Blake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Symco quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Symco within Waupaca County

On record in Symco

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Symco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning40
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony6
Fireworks4
Other causes3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
10 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesREPEAT FIRE
28 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY O FIRE
21 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFOUR QUARTER CORNERS
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSHADY LANE
30 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Symco in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2016Tornado (EF1)Symco$200,000A weak tornado formed 4.2 miles east-southeast of Symco and traveled east just under three miles. At least a half dozen pine trees were snapped along the path and several large trees were uprooted (DI 28, DOD 3,4). Several farm outbuildings were heavily damaged, with metal from the buildings strewn downwind hundreds of yards. A manufactured home was pushed off its block foundation (DI 3, DOD 3). The tornado dissipated about 6.3 miles north-northeast of Northport. Average path width was 75 yards.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindSymco$75,000A thunderstorm produced high winds that blew down two storage sheds just outside Bear Creek in Waupaca County. More than a dozen farming machines were in one of the sheds; many sustained damage.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSymco$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and caused damage at four farms in central Waupaca County. Two barns, two sheds and a silo chute sustained damage from the storm.
September 2013HailSymco-Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail that fell on Highway 161 between Iola and Symco.

Every storm recorded in Waupaca 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
Manawa3.5 miles7
Marble (historical)3.8 miles8
Nicholson4.7 miles8
Nowell (historical)5.8 miles7
Little Wolf (historical)6.3 miles7
Royalton7.3 miles7
Carmel7.3 miles7
Ogdensburg8.0 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 SymcoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7661260The 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 1575208. 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.

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.