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Rocky Corners, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Guenther town. It stands on Johnson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dewey Marsh quadrangle. It stands 1,201 feet above sea level.

Rocky Corners within Marathon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62 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
Equipment and vehicle use29
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHILL FIRE
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTIKI FIRE
8 August 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2008Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFAIR
26 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Rocky Corners: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, 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
Knowlton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bens Stone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Depot Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ellis CorporationFlagstonePast Producer
Wilcox Lane Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marathon 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
Ashley1.5 miles7
Knowlton4.0 miles8
Peplin5.0 miles10
Dancy5.9 miles8
Mosinee7.4 miles10
Kronenwetter7.5 miles10
Evergreen9.0 miles10
Little Eau Claire9.8 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 Rocky CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7355756The 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 1581568. 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.