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Beecher Lake, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Beecher town. It lies in ZIP code area 54156. It stands on Beecher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amberg quadrangle.

Beecher Lake within Marinette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Beecher Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 226 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Debris and open burning38
Equipment and vehicle use36
Arson/incendiarism24
Recreation and ceremony16
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Fireworks6
Other causes4
Smoking4
Natural2

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
4 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFRIDAY FIRE
13 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROCK FIRE
6 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marinette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Beecher Lake: 10 past producers, 9 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. 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
Amberg Clay PitClayPast Producer
Silvery Grey QuarryStoneUnknown
Amberg Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Amberg Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Amberg Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Beecher Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Beecher Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Boshen Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Downing Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Headquarters Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marinette County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beecher Lake in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2024HailBeecher Lake-Quarter size hail fell near Beecher. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBeecher Lake-Scattered trees were blown down along and south of U.S. Highway 8 in the northern part of the county.
July 2006Funnel CloudBeecher Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marinette 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
Beecher1.3 miles11
Amberg4.6 miles11
Pembine4.6 miles11
Cedarville8.0 miles9
Kremlin (historical)9.9 miles11
White Pine Haven10.8 miles11
Dunbar10.8 miles10
Athelstane11.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577511. 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.