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Four Corners, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Little Falls town. It lies in ZIP code area 54656. The Survey maps it on the Four Corners quadrangle. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Four Corners within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

In the county-history sources

1,217 words on this township

History of Monroe County, Wisconsin, Past and Present : Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County [microform], published 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Little Falls Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Little Falls Town - 1,217 words.

Fires near this place

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Four Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 216 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
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Other causes5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Natural1

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
4 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1999Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGRASS EMBER
3 May 2014Debris and open burning2.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDOUBLE I

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Four Corners in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 4 hail, 1 wildfire, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2000WildfireFour Corners$25,000no account filed
July 2010Flash FloodFour Corners$10,000Law enforcement reported several roads closed due to washouts and water over roadways.
September 2010FloodFour Corners$6,000Minor damage occurred to several county roads across the northern part of the county, including County Road G. The rain fell from the evening of the 22nd into the overnight hours on the 23rd. As of 10 a.m. CST on the morning of the 23rd, 5.52 inches had fallen at Cataract.
September 2024HailFour Corners-The public reported quarter sized hail via social media 2 miles northwest of Four Corners.
May 2016HailFour Corners-Quarter sized hail fell near Melrose.
September 2010Heavy RainFour Corners-Storm total rainfall amounted to 4.88 inches.
July 2009HailFour Corners-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindFour Corners-no account filed
June 2001HailFour Corners-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Cataract3.9 miles11
Angelo10.2 miles14
Sparta10.5 miles14
Leon14.3 miles14
Farmers Valley15.0 miles12
Scotts Junction (historical)15.0 miles12
Spring Bank Park16.2 miles14
Tunnel City19.0 miles14

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 Q5475075The 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 1572605. 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.

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.