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Wilcox, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grover town. It lies in ZIP code area 54157. The Survey maps it on the Oconto East quadrangle. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Wilcox within Marinette 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.

Fires near this place

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Wilcox between 1992 and 2019, burning about 91 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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 burning39
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
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
11 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 June 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFOOD PLOT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marinette County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilcox in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWilcox-Thunderstorm winds ripped the roof off of a silo near Wilcox. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2015HailWilcox-Nickel size hail fell west of Peshtigo.
September 2015HailWilcox-Quarter size hail fell west of Peshtigo, in the Town of Grover.
July 2008HailWilcox-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marinette 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
May Corner3.6 miles10
Peshtigo6.0 miles9
Harmony7.0 miles10
Bagley Junction10.7 miles10
Porterfield11.0 miles10
Coleman11.5 miles10
Pound12.5 miles10
Marinette12.9 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 WilcoxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8000309The 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 1577885. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.