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Chicago Corners, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Oneida town. It lies in ZIP code area 54115. The Survey maps it on the Freedom quadrangle. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Chicago Corners within Outagamie 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Chicago Corners between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources804401
3 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203
24 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources251
15 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020027
6 April 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources150
27 April 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources98
3 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources274

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Outagamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Chicago Corners: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver. 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
Phoenix FissureCopper, SilverPast Producer1863
Duck Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gonnering PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dan Mueller Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ebben QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Nelson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit HStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shuh QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Outagamie 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
Freedom5.4 miles8
Seymour5.7 miles9
Murphy Corner6.7 miles8
Five Corners7.2 miles8
Isaar8.0 miles9
Twelve Corners10.5 miles8
Black Creek10.7 miles8
Cicero10.7 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 Chicago CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5095560The 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 1563002. 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.