Ryans Corner, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Casco town. It lies in ZIP code area 54216. It stands on Little Scarboro Creek. The Survey maps it on the Casco quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Ryans Corner within Kewaunee 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.

1952 USGS Casco quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Manitowoc quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Casco quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Sturgeon Bay quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ryans Corner between 1993 and 2018, burning about 4 acres 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 burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	15
1 May 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Ryans Corner: 18 past producers, 5 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Luxemburg Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Alaska Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
C Novak Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Casco Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Casco Gravel Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Casco Gravel Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Duescher Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
H Arendt Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hillside Road Gravel Deposit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Hillside Road Gravel Deposit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Kewaunee 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Clyde	1.3 miles	8
Slovan	1.8 miles	8
Casco Junction	2.6 miles	8
Casco	3.1 miles	8
Birchwood	4.3 miles	8
Luxemburg	5.4 miles	8
Ellisville	5.6 miles	8
Rostok	5.7 miles	8

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 Ryans Corner	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7384687	The 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 1577805. 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.