Schmidt Corner, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Harrison town. It lies in ZIP code area 54945. It stands on Comet Creek. The Survey maps it on the Big Falls quadrangle. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Schmidt Corner within Waupaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Tigerton quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Big Falls quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Big Falls quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Schmidt Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Natural	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
26 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	G-GG FIRE
2 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 July 2012	Debris and open burning	4.2 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LAVERNE & SHIRLEY
3 July 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SQUARE BAILER
14 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.1 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ALFALFA
22 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca 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
Northland	4.6 miles	7
Petersville (historical)	5.5 miles	7
Norske	5.7 miles	7
Big Falls	5.7 miles	7
Iola	6.6 miles	7
Granite City (historical)	7.3 miles	8
Scandinavia	9.9 miles	8
Ogdensburg	11.5 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 Schmidt Corner	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7431803	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 1577815. 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.