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Crescent Corner, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Crescent town. It lies in ZIP code area 54501. The Survey maps it on the Lake Julia quadrangle. It stands 1,588 feet above sea level.

Crescent Corner within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Crescent Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 were 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2007Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyTOMAHWK C.
31 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesESCAPE
2 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Crescent Corner: 6 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Hat Rapids Flowage Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hat Rapids Road Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Heal Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hixon Lake Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lake Julia Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lake Julia Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lake Julia Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lake Julia Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lassig PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lincoln County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oneida 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
Woodboro4.3 miles12
Rhinelander6.2 miles9
Newbold8.9 miles12
Manson (historical)9.1 miles12
Harshaw11.0 miles12
Malvern11.1 miles9
McNaughton11.6 miles12
Roosevelt11.6 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 Crescent CornerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5184355The 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 1577561. 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.