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Corinth, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Johnson town. The Survey maps it on the Corinth quadrangle. It stands 1,430 feet above sea level.

Corinth within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Corinth between 1995 and 2018, burning about 26 acres 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 burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
24 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 2018Debris and open burning12 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources706
10 May 2018Debris and open burning11 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBERN
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources705
22 April 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Corinth: 9 past producers, 7 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Apfelbeck Gneiss DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Athens Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Athens Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Athens Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Athens Gravel Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Denzine Granite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Ellingson Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Frahm Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hackel Schist QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corinth in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. 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
October 2023HailCorinth-Half dollar size hail fell near Athens.

Every storm recorded in Marathon 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
Milan2.6 miles12
Wuertsburg3.6 miles12
Athens4.0 miles9
Swan5.1 miles12
Schnappsville6.4 miles12
Poniatowski7.7 miles7
Cherokee8.1 miles12
Wien9.2 miles12

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 CorinthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5170657The 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 1563398. 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.