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Four Corners, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Superior town. It lies in ZIP code area 54880. The Survey maps it on the Sunnyside quadrangle. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Four Corners within Douglas 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.

Fires near this place

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Four Corners between 1992 and 2018, burning about 305 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning23
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1

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
15 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN FIRE
24 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Four Corners: 14 occurrences, 4 producers, 4 past producers, 3 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Big Manitou Falls QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Copper CreekCopperUnknownCopper
Copper Creek Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Copper Creek Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
CulliganCopperUnknownCopper
Fon Du LacCopperUnknownCopper, Malachite
Granum QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stupak QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Prospect Near SunnysideCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near SunnysideCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Black River4.7 miles12
Sunnyside5.0 miles12
Boylston5.6 miles12
Boylston Junction6.3 miles12
South Range6.8 miles8
Dedham7.0 miles12
Borea7.1 miles12
Ambridge7.2 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 Q5475071The 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 2741528. 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.