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Cranberry Lake, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Worcester town. It lies in ZIP code area 54555. The Survey maps it on the Cranberry Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,542 feet above sea level.

Cranberry Lake within Price County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Cranberry Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
15 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Cranberry Lake: 9 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Aspen Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cramer Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cranberry Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hay Creek Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Joe Spacek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Liberty Lane Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Little Chicago Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lookout Tower Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Phillips Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Phillips Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Price County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cranberry Lake in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 2 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCranberry Lake-A measured gust of 71 mph was recorded by a handheld anemometer.
April 2017HailCranberry Lake-Most of the hailstones were around one half of an inch in diameter.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCranberry Lake-Two 50' tall pine trees were knocked down on County Road D.

Every storm recorded in Price 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
Worcester3.9 miles10
Phillips4.8 miles10
Prentice7.3 miles10
Pennington7.8 miles10
Dover8.7 miles11
Catawba12.0 miles8
Coolidge (historical)12.3 miles11
Lugerville12.6 miles10

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 Cranberry LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5181893The 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 1563494. 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.