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Five Corners, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It lies in ZIP code area 54913. The Survey maps it on the Freedom quadrangle. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Five Corners within Outagamie 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Five Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 August 2018Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources99
31 July 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020054
15 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020027
22 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources98
31 October 2020Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1031401
1 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202067

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Outagamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Five Corners: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver. 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
Phoenix FissureCopper, SilverPast Producer1863
Duck Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gonnering PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brun-Van Hoof QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Freedom QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
G Bruhn Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Murphy Construction CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Quarry No 2 Van SchyndelStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rocky Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shuh QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Outagamie County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Five Corners in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindFive Corners-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines, which blocked highways and roads between Black Creek and Freedom. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2017HailFive Corners-Quarter size hail fell north of Freedom.
May 2002Funnel CloudFive Corners-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Outagamie 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
Murphy Corner2.9 miles8
Twelve Corners3.3 miles8
Center Valley4.6 miles8
Freedom4.9 miles8
Binghamton5.4 miles8
Mackville5.4 miles10
Black Creek5.9 miles8
Apple Creek6.2 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 Five CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5455871The 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 1565038. 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.