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Five Corners, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Morris town. It lies in ZIP code area 54486. It stands on Dent Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shepley quadrangle. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.

Five Corners within Shawano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Five Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use38
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
22 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1998Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSCHOOL HOUSE ASPEN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawano County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Five Corners: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. 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
Boldig Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bowler Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cemetery Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Evelyn Hansen Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spiegel Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tiger Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Willow Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Wilson Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Shawano 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
Whitcomb4.5 miles7
Shepley4.8 miles7
Bowler4.8 miles7
Tigerton5.0 miles7
Regina5.9 miles7
Paac Ciinak6.5 miles7
Wittenberg6.8 miles7
Tilleda7.0 miles7

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 Q5455874The 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 1565039. 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.