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Clearwater Lake, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Three Lakes town. It lies in ZIP code area 54521. The Survey maps it on the Three Lakes quadrangle. It stands 1,640 feet above sea level.

Clearwater Lake within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

88 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Clearwater Lake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes3
Fireworks3
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
6 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWILD EAGLE
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSPIRIT
7 July 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSPIRIT LAKE POINT FIRE
5 July 2002Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Clearwater Lake: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Elton Gensler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Javen Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maple Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mud Creek Gravel Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Spirit Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sundstein Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Townline Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clearwater Lake in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 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
July 1998Thunderstorm WindClearwater Lake$2,000no account filed
May 2021HailClearwater Lake-Nickel size hail fell near Three Lakes.

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Three Lakes4.0 miles13
Sugar Camp7.8 miles12
Starks13.3 miles9
Gagen13.5 miles9
Roosevelt14.2 miles9
Malvern17.7 miles9
Rhinelander19.1 miles9
Monico19.2 miles8

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 Clearwater LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5130940The 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 1563171. 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.