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Eagle River, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Eagle River City. It lies in ZIP code area 54521. The Survey maps it on the Eagle River East quadrangle. 1,628 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,647 feet above sea level.

Eagle River within Vilas County

On record in Eagle River

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Eagle River grew from 1,398 to 1,628 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,398
20201,628+230 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Eagle River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes4
Fireworks3
Smoking2
Natural1

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 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2003Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2003Missing 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
28 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vilas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Eagle River: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. 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
County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Croker Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eagle Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eagle Lake Rd Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eagle River Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mud Creek Gravel Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Oneida County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Rade Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Rice Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Richter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Vilas County

Storms near this place

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle River in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1999LightningEagle River1 hurtno account filed
June 1999HailEagle River$500,000no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindEagle River$200,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindEagle River$50,000no account filed
July 2011Flash FloodEagle River$5,000A small section of Highway 70 was flooded in a low-lying area. In addition, a house had one basement wall caved in by high water.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEagle River$3,000no account filed
July 2023HailEagle River-Quarter size hail fell in Eagle River.
May 2022HailEagle River-Quarter size hail fell in Eagle River.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEagle River-Thunderstorm winds downed trees east of Eagle River. The time of this event is an estimate based on the Emergency Manager.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEagle River-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines near Eagle River. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2018HailEagle River-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail as it passed near Eagle River.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindEagle River-Thunderstorm winds downed large trees along Wall Street and knocked out power in Eagle River.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindEagle River-Numerous trees and power lines down across eastern sections of Vilas county.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindEagle River-Power lines down.
April 2008HailEagle River-no account filed
May 2008HailEagle River-no account filed
April 2003HailEagle River-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindEagle River-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindEagle River-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindEagle River-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindEagle River-no account filed
April 2001HailEagle River-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindEagle River-no account filed
June 2001HailEagle River-no account filed
September 2001FloodEagle River-no account filed
July 2000FloodEagle River-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindEagle River-no account filed
July 1995HailEagle River-no account filed
September 1995HailEagle River-no account filed
September 1995HailEagle River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vilas 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
Conover9.5 miles14
Saint Germain12.9 miles13
Phelps13.1 miles15
Star Lake14.7 miles14
Sayner16.0 miles13
Land O' Lakes16.9 miles15
Arbor Vitae22.2 miles12
Boulder Junction25.2 miles17

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 Eagle RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569567The 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 1579167. 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.