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Lake Five, Wisconsin

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lisbon Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53017. The Survey maps it on the Merton quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Lake Five within Waukesha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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 Lisbon village. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 - Lisbon Village

Seven Murders

The county of Waukesha had got a reputation abroad for having had but one murder, apd a large number of her inhabitants thought the reputation a just one, as the only life-taking remembered, except the shooting of Henry Keene by' David Bonham, was the stabbing of Peschke by Dr. Bigelow, which was not generally considered murder.

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In the county-history sources

63,227 words on this township

The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lisbon Village covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lisbon Village - 63,227 words.

Fires near this place

30 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Lake Five between 2004 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
31 August 2012Natural1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900183
20 June 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20259
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800143
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18200
4 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19560
25 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20223

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Lake Five: 10 producers, 4 past producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, 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
Fonda Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Burg Limestone QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Carlsons Limestone QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Cawley Limestone QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Dudovick Limestone OperationLimestone, DimensionProducer
Halquist Stone Company Ideal QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
North End Limestone OperationLimestone, DimensionProducer
Colgate PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Colgate Pit Yard 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
K and N Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha 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
Lisbon3.0 miles20
Camp Whitcomb3.3 miles22
Colgate3.4 miles20
Merton3.7 miles22
Monches3.9 miles22
Sussex4.8 miles20
North Lake5.9 miles22
Willow Springs5.9 miles20

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 FiveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6475847The 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 1567735. 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.