Walker, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cranmoor town. It lies in ZIP code area 54495. It stands on Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vesper quadrangle. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.

Walker within Wood County

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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:48000
1967 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Vesper quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Walker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Debris and open burning	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	3
Other causes	2
Fireworks	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PRYNE FIRE
24 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HILLTOP FIRE
12 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 2012	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	DOUBLE GEORGE FIRE
27 August 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cranmoor	5.7 miles	13
Nekoosa Junction	5.8 miles	8
Eight Corners	6.3 miles	8
Nekoosa	6.4 miles	8
Port Edwards	6.5 miles	8
Vesper	6.7 miles	8
Dexterville	7.0 miles	13
Ceex Haci	7.1 miles	8

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 Walker	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7962192	The 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 1847130. 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.