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Murphy Corner, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Freedom town. It lies in ZIP code area 54913. The Survey maps it on the Freedom quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Murphy Corner within Outagamie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Murphy Corner between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
9 August 2018Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources99
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020055
31 July 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020054
15 July 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCF00059
19 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020042
15 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020027
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources9000081
22 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources98

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Outagamie 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 Murphy Corner: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Silver. 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
Phoenix FissureCopper, SilverPast Producer1863
Brun-Van Hoof QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Duck Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Freedom QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
G Bruhn Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gonnering PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kurey Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Murphy Construction CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
R Evers Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Shuh QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Outagamie 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
Freedom2.4 miles8
Five Corners2.9 miles8
Apple Creek4.7 miles9
Mackville5.2 miles10
Twelve Corners5.4 miles8
Chicago Corners6.7 miles8
Center Valley6.7 miles8
Little Chute7.4 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 Murphy CornerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6938926The 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 1570037. 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.