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Cornelia, Wisconsin

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Harrison town. It lies in ZIP code area 53818. The Survey maps it on the Dickeyville quadrangle. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Cornelia within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

In the county-history sources

1,058 words on this township

History of Grant County Wisconsin, published 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Harrison Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Harrison Town - 1,058 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cornelia between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 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 burning3
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
25 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018
25 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2118
23 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1918
10 March 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20044
24 October 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018174

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Cornelia: 18 unknowns, 18 past producers, 5 producers, 2 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Cadmium. 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
Beecher Sand Ltd.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kistler and StephensLead, ZincPast Producer1917
RoseleipZinc, LeadPast Producer1925
Upper Mississippi Valley Zn - Pb Dist. MinesZinc, Lead, Cadmium, Copper, Barium-BariteProducer1750
Bell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brogley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Klar QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Platteville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ulbircht-Schaefer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ulbrick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornelia in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCornelia$15,000The top of a silo was blown off and a barn or shed was blown down along County Road O north of Dickeyville. Water was flowing over some nearby roads.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindCornelia$2,000Trees were blown down east of Potosi.
March 2026HailCornelia-The public reported quarter sized hail roughly 2 miles east of Cornelia.
April 2025HailCornelia-The public reported 2 inch diameter hail 2 miles west-northwest of Cornelia.
June 2024Tornado (EF0)Cornelia-This brief EF-0 tornado produced a very short path of tree damage south of Highway O near the intersection with North Lane, as seen via drone footage provided by Grant County Emergency Management. No structures were impacted.
October 2018Heavy RainCornelia-Northwest of Georgetown, five inches of rain fell.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Dickeyville4.4 miles17
Bigpatch5.6 miles13
Tennyson5.7 miles16
British Hollow5.9 miles16
Buena Vista6.1 miles16
Platteville6.1 miles13
Rockville6.1 miles16
Georgetown6.7 miles14

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 CorneliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5171144The 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 1563403. 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.