Beachs Corners, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ettrick town. It lies in ZIP code area 54627. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hegg quadrangle.

Beachs Corners within Trempealeau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1926 USGS North Bend quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS North Bend quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Hegg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Winona quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Beachs Corners between 2000 and 2020, burning about 361 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
15 August 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	34
5 April 2000	Debris and open burning	360 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ETTRICK
25 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1803075
25 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1803076

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trempealeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Beachs Corners: 12 past producers, 9 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Johnson Quarry	Stone	Unknown
A Brovold Shale Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
A Loutsch Dolomite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Beach Corners Shale Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Bear Creek Shale Deposit #1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Central Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
E Holte Shale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
F Sesvold Shale Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
H Grote Shale Quarry #1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
H Grote Shale Quarry #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Trempealeau 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
Hegg	2.4 miles	13
Chapultepee	2.8 miles	11
Ettrick	2.8 miles	11
Iduna	4.0 miles	11
Upper French Creek	4.8 miles	11
Frenchville	5.8 miles	11
Blair	6.4 miles	13
Butman Corners	9.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1561332. 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.