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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Oconto quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Oconto East quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Sturgeon Bay quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
85 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 July 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 June 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 June 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 June 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | FOOD PLOT FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilcox | - | Thunderstorm winds ripped the roof off of a silo near Wilcox. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Wilcox | - | Nickel size hail fell west of Peshtigo. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Wilcox | - | Quarter size hail fell west of Peshtigo, in the Town of Grover. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Wilcox | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| May Corner | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Peshtigo | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Harmony | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Bagley Junction | 10.7 miles | 10 | |
| Porterfield | 11.0 miles | 10 | |
| Coleman | 11.5 miles | 10 | |
| Pound | 12.5 miles | 10 | |
| Marinette | 12.9 miles | 9 |
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 Wilcox | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8000309 | 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 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.




