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Four Corners, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Trade Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 54840. The Survey maps it on the Trade Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Four Corners within Burnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

56 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Four Corners between 1993 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
13 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 48
1 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMEDCHILL ROAD FIRE #1
31 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMEDCHILL ROAD FIRE #3
31 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMEDCHILL ROAD FIRE #2
26 August 2018Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201843
22 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burnett County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Four Corners: 18 occurrences, 15 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Unnamed Prospect Near Forsythe LaCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Forsythe LaCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Rice LakeCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Rice LakeCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Round LakeCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Round LakeCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Young LakeCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Young LakeCopperOccurrence
Amundson Sand Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Amundson Sand Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Burnett County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Four Corners in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindFour Corners$2,000A power pole was snapped by the winds during the storm.
July 2019HailFour Corners-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burnett 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
Trade Lake1.3 miles16
Pole Cat Crossing3.8 miles16
Trade River4.6 miles16
Branstad6.7 miles16
Alpha7.0 miles12
Falun7.7 miles12
Grantsburg8.7 miles12
Lind11.8 miles16

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 Four CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5475069The 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 1565182. 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.