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Wrights Corners, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Trempealeau town. It lies in ZIP code area 54661. It lies near Tamarack Valley. The Survey maps it on the Trempealeau quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Wrights Corners within Trempealeau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

4,024 words on this township

History of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, published 1917 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Trempealeau Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Trempealeau Town - 4,024 words.

Fires near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Wrights Corners between 1993 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 2 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
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
25 August 2014Naturalunder an acreTrempeleau National Wildlife RefugeBFC
10 July 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2020Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2023
7 May 2004Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1825

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trempealeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Wrights Corners: 18 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
C Carhart Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
F Klein Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
F Klein Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frank Eichman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
H Kohnle Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marshland Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R Bark Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R Kriesel Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Sonsalla Farms Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Trempealeau Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Trempealeau 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
Centerville0.5 miles11
West Prairie2.9 miles18
Pine Creek (historical)3.7 miles18
Trempealeau4.6 miles11
Pine Creek5.6 miles16
Galesville6.0 miles11
Dodge6.5 miles16
Tamarack7.3 miles11

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 Wrights CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8038301The 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 1851209. 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.