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Wequiock, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Scott town. It lies in ZIP code area 54311. The Survey maps it on the Green Bay East quadrangle. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Wequiock within Brown County

On record in Wequiock

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

7 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Wequiock between 2018 and 2020, burning about 30 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
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
28 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1837880
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2063
1 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2058
29 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18062
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18057
11 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2007161
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2004519
2 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2032

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown 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 Wequiock: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bay Settlement QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mill No. 8Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Number 3 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quarry No. 8 and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Township of Scott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Brown 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
Bay Settlement1.1 miles11
Chapel Ridge2.8 miles11
Red Banks3.2 miles9
Benderville3.3 miles9
New Franken3.9 miles9
Edgewater Beach4.7 miles9
Champion4.8 miles9
Humboldt5.4 miles9

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 WequiockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7983118The 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 1576431. 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.