Lake Emily, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Amherst town. It lies in ZIP code area 54407. The Survey maps it on the Amherst quadrangle. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lake Emily within Portage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Amherst quadrangle1:48000
1969 USGS Amherst quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Lake Emily (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 264 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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	42
Railroad operations and maintenance	31
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Recreation and ceremony	6
Fireworks	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
19 September 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WARD ROAD FIRE
12 September 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SMOKEY RR FIRE #1
12 September 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SMOKEY RR FIRE #2
9 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FOUNTAIN GROVE HOLDOVER
8 August 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	STOCKTON RR FIRE #9
7 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	3.3 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PAVELSKI BALER FIRE
5 August 2012	Smoking	2.1 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HWY 10 WESTBOUND FIRE
3 August 2012	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SMOKEY SPUR FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lake Emily (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Mengel Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Portage 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
Amherst Junction	1.3 miles	6
Nelsonville	1.8 miles	6
Fancher	2.9 miles	6
Amherst	3.2 miles	6
New Hope	4.2 miles	7
Custer	5.3 miles	7
Arnott	6.1 miles	6
Garfield	6.2 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 Lake Emily (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14714511	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 1851499. 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.