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Neva Corners, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Neva town. It lies in ZIP code area 54424. The Survey maps it on the Antigo quadrangle. It stands 1,552 feet above sea level.

Neva Corners within Langlade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Neva Corners between 1992 and 2019, burning about 55 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
18 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesIN THE DITCH
3 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCHURCH RD FIRE
21 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Langlade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Neva Corners: 14 past producers, 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 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
Angle Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Antigo Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bluebell Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chillie Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Deerbrook Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Duffek Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fisher Pit Benes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Fosterling Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Langlade County Highway Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Langlade County Hwy. Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Langlade County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neva Corners in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 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 2008Thunderstorm WindNeva Corners-Winds from thunderstorms knocked trees onto power lines north of Antigo along Highway 45.

Every storm recorded in Langlade 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
Deerbrook1.1 miles9
Neva2.1 miles8
Kempster5.0 miles10
Antigo5.5 miles9
Ormsby6.2 miles11
Bryant6.4 miles8
Koepenick8.1 miles10
Sherry Junction8.3 miles8

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 Neva CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7003259The 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 1570195. 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.