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Mount Hope Corners, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brunswick town. It lies in ZIP code area 54701. The Survey maps it on the Mondovi NE quadrangle. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Mount Hope Corners within Eau Claire County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

12 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Mount Hope Corners between 2013 and 2020, burning about 52 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
2 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources167
25 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources214
6 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources111
26 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources194117
9 April 2014Debris and open burning11 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBLACK RIVER FALLS CO-OP 1
8 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources103
27 April 2013Debris and open burning35 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources122

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eau Claire County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Mount Hope Corners: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 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
Agnes Lisker Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Caryville Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cedar Road Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fedie Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Langdell Road Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Brunswick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Caryville Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Caryville Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Eau Claire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit Number 4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Eau Claire 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
Shawtown4.5 miles14
Oak Grove (historical)4.7 miles11
Putnam Heights5.4 miles15
Nelsonville (historical)5.5 miles11
Eau Claire6.5 miles15
Union7.6 miles14
Altoona8.2 miles15
Cleghorn8.3 miles12

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 Mount Hope CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6921301The 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 1569815. 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.