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Welcome to Five Corners ...

Five Corners is located in Outagamie County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Five Corners, you might consider that their post office opened in 1878.

A typical abbreviation for Five Corners: Five Cors.

Five Corners is 810 feet [247 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Five Corners lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Five Corners ...

While we believe that this Five Corners is located in Outagamie County, we know of another 2 Wisconsin communities named Five Corners. Those communities are located in the following counties: Ozaukee and Shawano County.

Beyond Wisconsin, there are 35 communities that are also named Five Corners - they are located in California, Idaho, Maine (3), Massachusetts (4), Michigan, Minnesota, New Brunswick, New Hampshire (3), New Jersey, New York (7), Ohio (3), Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington (4).

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Five Corners.

Communities near Five Corners ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Five Corners.

  • Green Bay
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Green Bay is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Bay
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 103,836 people
  • Appleton
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Appleton is located in Outagamie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Appleton
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 74,058 people
    • Former name for Appleton:
    • Appleton Junction
  • Neenah
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Neenah is located in Winnebago County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neenah
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 26,363 people
  • De Pere
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • De Pere is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Pere
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 25,014 people
  • Howard
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Howard is located in Brown County
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    • Population from the 2020 Census: 20,346 people
  • Fox Crossing
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Fox Crossing is located in Winnebago County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Crossing
  • Menasha
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Menasha is located in Winnebago County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Menasha
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 17,796 people
  • Ashwaubenon
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Ashwaubenon is located in Brown County
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    • Population from the 2020 Census: 17,004 people
  • Kaukauna
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Kaukauna is located in Calumet County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kaukauna
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 16,356 people
  • Allouez
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Allouez is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allouez
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,784 people

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Five Corners. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Five Corners.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Five Corners. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Five Corners.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Five Corners. See our Newspapers Page for Five Corners.

Adding Five Corners to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Five Corners in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Five Corners was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Five Corners post office opened in 1878. The Five Corners post office closed in 1885.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Five Corners.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Outagamie, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Five Corners - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/