Eight Corners, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sigel town. It lies in ZIP code area 54495. The Survey maps it on the Vesper quadrangle. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

Eight Corners within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:48000
1967 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Vesper quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Eight Corners between 1995 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	1
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
26 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18108
1 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	102 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SIGEL FIRE
25 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18173
16 July 2012	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SPARKLER FIRE
27 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20053
27 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18123
22 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.6 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ELM FIRE
15 May 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood 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
Vesper	2.3 miles	8
Walker	6.3 miles	8
Rudolph	6.5 miles	8
Arpin	7.7 miles	11
Sherry	8.0 miles	6
Wisconsin Rapids	8.2 miles	8
Biron	8.3 miles	8
Port Edwards	8.7 miles	8

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 Eight Corners	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5348961	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 1564469. 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.