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Zachow, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Angelica town. It lies in ZIP code area 54107. The Survey maps it on the Zachow quadrangle. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Zachow within Shawano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Zachow between 2018 and 2019, burning under an acre 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
Debris and open burning2

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
7 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18065
22 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources82019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawano County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Zachow: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Beech Drive Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Gehm Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pittsfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bonduel Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bonduel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Foster PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Krakow Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lodge Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nichols Drive Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Slab City Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Shawano County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zachow in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2013: 1 funnel cloud, 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindZachow-Thunderstorm winds took trees down in the town of Zachow.
July 2006Funnel CloudZachow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawano 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
Frazer Corners4.0 miles8
Advance4.2 miles6
Bonduel4.3 miles8
Slab City4.4 miles8
Angelica4.8 miles8
Krakow6.3 miles6
Landstad6.5 miles8
Green Valley6.6 miles6

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 ZachowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8064032The 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 1577121. 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.

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.