West Bancroft, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pine Grove town. It lies in ZIP code area 54921. It lies near The Ledge. The Survey maps it on the Bancroft quadrangle. It stands 1,076 feet above sea level.

West Bancroft within Portage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Whiting quadrangle1:48000
1970 USGS Bancroft quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of West Bancroft between 1992 and 2020, burning about 368 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
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Debris and open burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	3
Fireworks	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	1

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
24 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WHEEL FIRE 2
24 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WHEEL FIRE 1
10 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LIGHTNING ARRESTOR FIRE
7 July 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 July 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage 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
Bancroft	1.0 miles	7
West Almond	3.9 miles	6
Coddington	4.6 miles	7
Keene	5.2 miles	6
Almond	7.3 miles	6
Plover	10.5 miles	7
Kellner	10.9 miles	6
Meehan	11.0 miles	7

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 West Bancroft	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7984376	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 1577877. 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.