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Cedar Lake, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Polk town. It lies in ZIP code area 53086. The Survey maps it on the Hartford East quadrangle. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.

Cedar Lake within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

14 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Lake between 2017 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. None 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources111
17 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019083
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000045
28 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources102
28 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources213
20 April 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1901269
26 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1839
25 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000036

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Lake: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 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
Cedar Lake Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jackson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Slinger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stiemke QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Slinger1.4 miles15
Diefenbach Corners1.7 miles15
Saint Lawrence2.4 miles15
Ackerville3.5 miles15
Pike Lake3.8 miles15
Cedar Creek3.8 miles15
Nabob4.7 miles14
Aurora5.1 miles14

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 Cedar LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714422The 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 1562855. 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.