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Kennedys Corners, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lima town. It lies in ZIP code area 53085. The Survey maps it on the Sheboygan Falls quadrangle. It stands 748 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Kennedys Corners within Sheboygan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Kennedys Corners (historical) between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2402
31 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2360
10 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1679
17 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1511
16 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1506
12 May 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources23
8 April 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1017
7 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources94

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan 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
Gibbsville2.8 miles10
Ourtown3.0 miles10
Hingham3.4 miles9
Waldo4.2 miles9
Sheboygan Falls4.9 miles10
Oostburg5.4 miles8
Adell5.8 miles8
Plymouth Country View Estates5.9 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 Kennedys Corners (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18153973The 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 2760377. 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.