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Utowana Beach, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Harrison Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54952. The Survey maps it on the Sherwood quadrangle. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Utowana Beach within Calumet County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

21 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Utowana Beach between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources338
15 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20CL029
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesAP00199
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1386
25 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18BU001
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources96
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources235
12 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1485

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calumet 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 Utowana Beach: 3 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite, 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
Badger Highway Menasha QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Midwest Perlite Co.PerlitePlant
Van Handel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Deitz QuarryStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Calumet 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
Harrison2.2 miles11
Highland Beach2.8 miles11
Darboy3.4 miles11
High Cliff (historical)4.6 miles11
Sherwood5.9 miles11
Dorns Faro Springs Beach6.2 miles10
Harrison (historical)6.2 miles11
Rockaway Beach7.6 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 Utowana BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7902966The 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 1576011. 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.