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Honey Lake, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Rochester Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53105. The Survey maps it on the Burlington quadrangle. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Honey Lake within Racine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Rochester village. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879 - Rochester Village

Miscellaneous

The Hanging of John McCaffrey. - Capital punishment, as is known, is prohibited by statute in Wisconsin. In two cases only, has it been enforced, and one of these occurred in Kenosha County, when John McCaffrey suffered the extreme penalty of the law, for the murder of his wife. The crime was committed on the night of Monday, July 22, 1850.

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In the county-history sources

53,959 words on this township

Official Record of the Old Settlers Society of Racine County, Wisconsin : with the Historical Address of Charles E. Dyer, Delivered at Burlington, Wis., February 22, 1871, published 1871; The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879; Racine County Militant; an Illustrated Narrative of War Times, and a Soldiers' Roster; a Pioneer Publication Undertaken in the Interest of Patriotic Americans in Racine County, Wisconsin. A Home-made Book, About Home People, for Home People, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Rochester Village covers the township.

Read the chapter on Rochester Village - 53,959 words.

Fires near this place

21 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Honey Lake between 2018 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning7
Natural2
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
26 August 2018Natural1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources217
9 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources717
1 June 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources517
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources97
2 May 2018Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources132
7 April 2018Debris and open burning20 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources75
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources67
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources81

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Racine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Honey Lake: 6 producers, 5 past producers. 6 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
Limestone Quarry #3Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Alby Pit Number 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alby Pit Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Burlington Pit Yard 12Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dons PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J W Peters and Sons Inc Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oakes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Payne and Dolan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Racine County Hwy Dept Frost PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rochester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Racine County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honey Lake in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2017FloodHoney Lake$23,500,000The Fox River crested in Burlington at a record level of 16.15 feet on July 13th after 4-8 inches of rain in the Fox River Basin. The city of Burlington is divided in half at this river stage from east to west. Bridges and streets in downtown Burlington are blocked off and closed, including Bridge Street. Floodwaters affect homes on the following streets north of E. Jefferson St. in Burlington: North Spring St., North Main St., East Washington St., North Wisconsin St., and Capital Street. Riverside Park and Veterans Park is flooded. Floodwaters affect a portion of Brever Road 4 miles south of Burlington. Floodwaters also approach highway 83. Various road closures over the southwest half of Racine County continued due to flooding. The power was out for much of Burlington for a few days.
July 2017Flash FloodHoney Lake$300,000Four to eight inches of rain fell over the southwest half of the county over several hours causing urban and rural flash flooding. Racine County and the city and town of Burlington declared emergencies. Many creeks flooded; thereby flooding and washing-out many roads. Some of the roads that were closed were portions of highways 11 and 20 near the communities of Kansasville and Beaumont. The Hoosier Creek flooded and washed-out a portion of Mount Tom Rd. and flooded a portion of highway J. Urban flash flooding in Burlington and Union Grove closed many roads. The Fox River began to flood with sandbagging along the river in Waterford and Burlington.
July 2010Flash FloodHoney Lake$20,000The southern edge of a line of training thunderstorms pushed across northern portions of Racine County, producing between 3 and 4 inches of rain in two hours or less. water covering area roads made them impassable, including CTH G at I-94, with the flood waters washing out gravel shoulders. Basements flooded, causing damage to contents, including the basement of a home on Spring Street on the northwest side of the city of Racine, flooded with water from the swollen Root River.

Every storm recorded in Racine 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
Burlington3.0 miles19
Browns Lake4.3 miles19
Cedar Park4.4 miles19
Rochester4.7 miles19
Waterford5.8 miles18
Harbor Heights6.5 miles18
Bohners Lake6.5 miles18
Buena Park7.0 miles18

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 Honey LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23750673The 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 1566657. 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.