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Greens Corners, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Fairfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 53913. The Survey maps it on the Lewiston quadrangle. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Greens Corners within Sauk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Greens Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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 use56
Debris and open burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes3
Smoking2
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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY ROAD U FIRE
23 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2001Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sauk 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 Greens Corners: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Baraboo Quartzite Company, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dubois PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Farms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Goerks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Halsted PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jesse PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Macksey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sauk 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
Baraboo6.2 miles24
Deer Run Estates6.6 miles17
West Baraboo6.8 miles19
Crawford Crossing6.9 miles24
Lake Delton6.9 miles17
Black Hawk Manor7.4 miles19
Dellwood8.4 miles17
Maple Bluff Estates11.5 miles24

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 Greens CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16994509The 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 1565852. 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.