Four Corners, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Evergreen town. It lies in ZIP code area 54491. The Survey maps it on the White Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,375 feet above sea level.

Four Corners within Langlade 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.

1952 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Wabeno quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Four Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. None 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 use	15
Debris and open burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Other causes	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TOWNLINE FIREWORKS
29 July 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 July 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Langlade County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Four Corners: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Elton Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	White Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Langlade 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
Elton	2.2 miles	8
White Lake	4.3 miles	8
Langlade	6.1 miles	9
Hollister	6.2 miles	8
Polar	7.7 miles	8
Sherry Junction	8.4 miles	8
Lily	9.6 miles	10
Bryant	9.9 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 Four Corners	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5475072	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 1579281. 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.