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Lake Beulah, Wisconsin

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in East Troy town. It lies in ZIP code area 53120. The Survey maps it on the Mukwonago quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Lake Beulah within Walworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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.

In the county-history sources

20,792 words on this township

History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin...and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution.., published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on East Troy Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

William Weed, an Eastern merchant, ruined in fortune in the commercial crisis of the time, came from Buffalo, N. Y. , to East Troy, and remained a few years. Two of his children died during his residence here, and, the health of Mrs. Weed becoming impaired, she returned to her old home in Connecticut, and soon dii^l also. Mr. Weed removed, after the death of his wife, to Waukesha, and thence to Beaver Dam. He was a most worthy and exemplary man. and a leader in all the reforms of his time.

Passage source: History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin...and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution.., published 1882.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on East Troy Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Lake Beulah between 2018 and 2020, burning about 150 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources79
26 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources73
7 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources22
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18092
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20089
5 April 2020Recreation and ceremony10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources163
20 April 2019Debris and open burning42 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTICHIGAN
13 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900076

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lake Beulah: 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 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
Alby Pit Number 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alby Pit Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Army Lake Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Meyers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Beulah in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2026: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLake Beulah$6,000A barn or outbuilding lost a portion of its sheet metal roof.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindLake Beulah$3,000Several large tree downs. Another tree down on County Highway L just to the south.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindLake Beulah-Strong thunderstorm wind gust with a line of thunderstorms.
July 2017HailLake Beulah-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
Potter Lake1.5 miles24
Hilburn2.9 miles24
Army Lake (historical)3.1 miles24
Skyview Terrace4.8 miles24
Honey Creek5.1 miles19
East Troy5.1 miles24
Troy7.2 miles24
Troy Center7.7 miles24

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 Lake BeulahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714510The 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 1567724. 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.