Dutch Corners, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Schley town. It lies in ZIP code area 54452. The Survey maps it on the Pine Dells quadrangle. It stands 1,509 feet above sea level.

Dutch Corners within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1899 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Merrill quadrangle1:48000
1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Merrill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1982 USGS Pine Dells quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Merrill quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Dutch Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	2
Fireworks	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
8 September 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FRENCH RIDGE
18 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bloomville	4.1 miles	9
Doering	4.8 miles	11
Gleason	5.8 miles	11
Otis	8.0 miles	9
Pine River	8.0 miles	12
Merrill	8.1 miles	12
Dudley	8.2 miles	11
Irma	10.1 miles	9

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 Dutch Corners	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5317262	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 1876614. 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.