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Summit Corners, Wisconsin

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Oconomowoc City. It lies in ZIP code area 53066. The Survey maps it on the Oconomowoc East quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Summit Corners within Waukesha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 23 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.

In the county-history sources

43,392 words on this township

The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Oconomowoc City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Oconomowoc City - 43,392 words.

Fires near this place

15 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Summit Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
21 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1802995
19 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1839
30 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801911
1 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources124
9 April 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources157
4 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800908
26 April 2018Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801151
24 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801131

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Summit Corners: 5 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 5 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
Dousman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North Sawyer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Silver Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Vogt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vulcan Dousman Pit 422Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Waukesha PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

8 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit Corners in 8 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSummit Corners$50,000A swath of straight-line wind damage from the Oconomowoc area to 4 miles north of Merton. The Oconomowoc Lake Police Department reported widespread tree damage across the village. Over 100 trees were snapped or uprooted with every road in the village either completely or partially blocked. Farther to the northeast, numerous trees were downed on the west side of Pine Lake with scattered tree and powerline damage elsewhere across the path of high winds. A measured wind gust of 63 mph was taken at the intersection of highway 67 and I-94 at 10:09 PM CST, but maximum winds around 70 mph were estimated in the village of Oconomowoc Lake.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSummit Corners$3,000Numerous trees and limbs down.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSummit Corners$2,000A few trees and branches down on Dousman Road.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSummit Corners$2,000Several large tree limbs blown down.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSummit Corners-Mesonet station WI090 at intersection of westbound I-94 and State Highway 67.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSummit Corners-Mesonet site recorded a 66 mph wind gust.
February 2024HailSummit Corners-no account filed
June 2020HailSummit Corners-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Summit Center1.1 miles23
Oconomowoc Lake2.0 miles23
Oconomowoc2.9 miles23
Okauchee3.1 miles23
Okauchee Lake3.6 miles23
Delafield3.7 miles23
Utica3.8 miles23
Nashotah3.9 miles23

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 Summit CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7637791The 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 1575056. 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.