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Tuleta Hills, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Green Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 53946. The Survey maps it on the Green Lake quadrangle. It stands 886 feet above sea level.

Tuleta Hills within Green Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Tuleta Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning48
Equipment and vehicle use37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Fireworks6
Other causes4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 1996Debris and open burning1.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesE433 FIRE
27 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOWER VS BIRD
25 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMAPLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tuleta Hills: 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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
Chier St Marie Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ferris PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kepe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nowaske Gettleman & Broder PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Stiffner PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Green Lake 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
Indian Hills0.5 miles10
Sandstone Bluff1.0 miles10
Sherwood Forest1.6 miles10
Center House1.8 miles10
Spring Grove2.2 miles10
Lakewood Estates2.2 miles14
Forest Glen Beach2.7 miles10
Green Lake2.7 miles10

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 Tuleta HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7852018The 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 1575710. 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.