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Louis Corners, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Schleswig town. It lies in ZIP code area 53042. The Survey maps it on the School Hill quadrangle. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Louis Corners within Manitowoc 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Louis Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
5 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5056
7 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5122
14 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5123
21 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5115
18 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources9654
15 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5111
30 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources4962

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manitowoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Louis Corners: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Elkhart PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kiel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
L. Fries PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schnelle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schwartz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sheyboygan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zimmerman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Manitowoc County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louis Corners in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindLouis Corners$100,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines between Keil and Cleveland. Winds from the storms also tore the roof from an elementary school in Cleveland and knocked a garage from its foundation just west of Cleveland.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLouis Corners-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in southern Manitowoc County. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
July 2010Funnel CloudLouis Corners-A funnel cloud formed under a relatively weak thunderstorm during the afternoon just north of Cedar Lake in southern Manitowoc County. The funnel appeared close to the ground, but no damage occurred.

Every storm recorded in Manitowoc 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
Rockville2.6 miles9
Millhome2.8 miles9
School Hill3.2 miles9
Steinthal4.2 miles10
Kiel4.7 miles10
Saint Nazianz5.3 miles10
Spring Valley6.0 miles9
Meeme6.5 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 Louis CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6686931The 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 1568696. 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.