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West Kraft, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bradley town. It lies in ZIP code area 54487. The Survey maps it on the Tomahawk quadrangle. It stands 1,453 feet above sea level.

West Kraft within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of West Kraft between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
31 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTANNERY ROAD
21 August 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCRASS ROAD
14 August 2000Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2010Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSPIRIT HAVEN
28 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2000Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of West Kraft: 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Hawk PropsectZinc, CopperProspectChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Electrum, Magnetite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Tomahawk PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tomahawk Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Tomahawk2.0 miles9
Jersey City2.7 miles9
Gilbert3.1 miles9
Bradley6.4 miles10
Heafford Junction7.2 miles12
Irma7.9 miles9
McCord10.9 miles10
Spirit Falls12.3 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 West KraftAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7985662The 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 1576520. 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.