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Hickory Corners, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Maple Valley town. It lies in ZIP code area 54174. The Survey maps it on the Hickory Corners quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Hickory Corners within Oconto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning38
Equipment and vehicle use32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
Natural2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
11 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 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 Oconto County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hickory Corners: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Valley Line Road Ls QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickory Corners in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 4 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHickory Corners-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and blew off several sections of a storage shed in and around Kelly Lake. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHickory Corners-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Hickory Corners. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindHickory Corners-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindHickory Corners-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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
Kelly Brook3.7 miles8
Frostville3.8 miles9
Spruce5.9 miles8
Suring6.3 miles6
Klondike6.6 miles10
Gillett8.4 miles6
Hayes9.0 miles6
Logan9.6 miles9

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 Hickory CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714458The 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 1579441. 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.