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Twelve Corners, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Center town. It lies in ZIP code area 54106. The Survey maps it on the Black Creek quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Twelve Corners within Outagamie 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Twelve Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
9 August 2018Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources99
13 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources118
2 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources11
20 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19
5 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources37

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Outagamie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Twelve Corners: 10 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cizmon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mackville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quarry No 2 Van SchyndelStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rock Road Blue Bell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rocky Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dobrinska Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J Samson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Laird Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Laird Road Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Murphy Const. Co. Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Outagamie County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twelve Corners in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2022: 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
April 2022HailTwelve Corners-Quarter size hail fell near Mackville.
September 2021HailTwelve Corners-Quarter size hail fell south southeast of Black Creek. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.

Every storm recorded in Outagamie 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
Center Valley1.3 miles8
Binghamton2.7 miles8
Five Corners3.3 miles8
Hamples Corner4.1 miles10
Mackville4.1 miles10
Black Creek5.3 miles8
Murphy Corner5.4 miles8
Apple Creek6.1 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 Twelve CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7857589The 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 1575755. 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.