BlockDewey Corners, Wisconsin
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Arcadia town. It lies in ZIP code area 54612. It lies near Thompson Valley. The Survey maps it on the Independence quadrangle. It stands 784 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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 Whitehall quadrangle1:62500
- 1929 USGS Whitehall quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Winona quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Dewey Corners in 2019, burning under an acre 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 burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2019000 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 33 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Dewey Corners: 16 past producers, 15 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kolstad Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Lewis Valley Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Rotering Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Schank Sand Deposit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Schank Sand Deposit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Sobotta Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Arcadia Shale Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| B Kolstad Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| B Shepard Dolomite Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Botana Valley Sandstone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
11 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dewey Corners in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 7 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dewey Corners | 4 hurt, $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused a cattle barn undergoing construction to collapse near Arcadia. Four construction workers were injured. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Dewey Corners | $610,000 | Egg to tennis ball sized hail was reported north of Arcadia. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Dewey Corners | $79,000 | This very short-lived tornado damaged a single house along Burlington Road. A prominent tornado debris signature (TDS) was observed on radar. |
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Dewey Corners | - | Law enforcement reported flooding ongoing along Highway 95 between Arcadia and Blair. |
| March 2022 | Flood | Dewey Corners | - | Up to 1.5 inches of rain fell across the area in early March. With the ground still frozen, the resulting runoff pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Arcadia. The river crested just over the flood stage at 8.15 feet. |
| July 2019 | Flood | Dewey Corners | - | Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Arcadia. The river crested around a half foot above the flood stage at 8.55 feet on the 1st. |
| September 2019 | Flood | Dewey Corners | - | Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Arcadia. The river crested less than a half foot above the flood stage at 8.31 feet on the 13th. |
| May 2017 | Flood | Dewey Corners | - | Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Arcadia. The river crested a foot and a half above the flood state at 9.5 feet. |
| July 2017 | Flood | Dewey Corners | - | Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Arcadia. The river crested over a foot and half above the flood stage at 9.61 feet. |
| August 2016 | Flood | Dewey Corners | - | Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Trempealeau River briefly out of its banks in Arcadia. The river crested barely above the flood stage at 8.02 feet. |
| August 2016 | Flood | Dewey Corners | - | Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Arcadia. The river crested a little more than a foot over the flood stage at 9.18 feet. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arcadia | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| North Creek | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Williamsburg (historical) | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Tamarack | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Cortland (historical) | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| New City (historical) | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Independence | 7.9 miles | 12 | |
| Upper French Creek | 8.2 miles | 11 |
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 Dewey Corners | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5268181 | The 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 1851090. 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.