Island Lake, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Big Bend town. It lies in ZIP code area 54757. It stands on Swift Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fireside Lakes quadrangle. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.

Island Lake within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

1948 USGS Weyerhauser quadrangle1:48000
1950 USGS Weyerhauser quadrangle1:48000
1953 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Fireside Lakes quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Bloomer quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

64 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Island Lake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning	24
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Other causes	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 July 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PARK RD. FIRE #3
5 July 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PARK RD. FIRE #2
5 July 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PARK RD. FIRE #1
20 July 2001	Other causes	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Island Lake: 2 past producers. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Island Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Sand Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Island Lake in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2007: 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Island Lake	-	Trees were downed across a road.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Island Lake	-	Trees and power lines downed. Winds estimated.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Island Lake	-	Trees and power lines blown down. Estimated windspeed.
June 2007	Hail	Island Lake	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Weyerhaeuser	7.5 miles	7
Rivers Edge	9.1 miles	7
Flambeau Estates	9.2 miles	7
Apollonia	9.7 miles	7
Thornapple	10.1 miles	7
Bruce	10.8 miles	7
Strickland	11.5 miles	7
Port Arthur	13.3 miles	7

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 Island Lake	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6083243	The 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 1567024. 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.