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Delavan Lake, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Delavan town. It lies in ZIP code area 53115. The Survey maps it on the Sharon quadrangle.

Delavan Lake within Walworth County

On record in Delavan Lake

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Delavan Lake between 2018 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20340
8 May 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources174
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources58
26 May 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-084
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804008
29 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources134
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources109
24 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources130

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walworth 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 Delavan Lake: 6 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 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
Community PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Harness PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hopkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hopkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Koehl PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mann Brothers, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stewart PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Williams Bay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delavan Lake in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 2026Tornado (EF1)Delavan Lake$83,000The tornado began west of Quinney Road and tracked to the southeast, hitting 4 barns as it tracked across farmland west of Elkhorn.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindDelavan Lake$7,000Multiple reports of tree damage northwest of Delavan. A shed was also damaged.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindDelavan Lake$5,000Six inch diameter trees down.
September 2010HailDelavan Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walworth 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
Delavan3.4 miles19
Lake Lawn3.5 miles19
Fontana3.8 miles19
Inlet3.9 miles19
Pioneer Estates4.0 miles19
Walworth4.1 miles19
Darien4.2 miles19
East Delavan4.2 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q141258341The 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 1563875. 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.