Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Sumner town. It lies in ZIP code area 53538. The Survey maps it on the Busseyville quadrangle. 1,239 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 781 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLake Koshkonong grew from 1,204 to 1,239 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,204 | |
| 2020 | 1,239 | +35 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Koshkonong quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Koshkonong quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1906 USGS Koshkonong quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Busseyville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Fort Atkinson quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Lake Geneva quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
1,406 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Sumner Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Sumner Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
5 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lake Koshkonong between 2013 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 132 |
| 22 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 107 |
| 31 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1903267 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 72 |
| 29 November 2013 | Debris and open burning | 7.2 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | DEAD END |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lake Koshkonong: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poyers Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Wolf Construction Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Koshkonong in 8 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Koshkonong | $15,000 | Several small and large branches down. Large branches down on a RV. A few piers on Lake Koshkonong were damaged from high winds and high waves. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Lake Koshkonong | $15,000 | Minor tree damage noted along the path. Was photographed by storm spotters and a meteorologist from Fort Atkinson. Likely started out over Lake Koshkonong, but there is no photos or videos from that point in the life cycle of the tornado. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Koshkonong | $15,000 | Many trees and tree branches down on Lamp Road and Blackhawk Drive. A tree fell on a car. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Lake Koshkonong | $10,000 | The Rock River at Lake Koshkonong reached major flood stage, cresting at 11.51 feet the early morning of March 25th. This flooding continued into April. Lake Koshkonong merges with Mud Lake and the Rock River on the east side of the lake. There is knee-deep water over Blackhawk Island Rd. and Lamp Rd. is flooded. Flooding on Oxbow Bend Rd. in the Town of Koshkonong. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Koshkonong | $6,000 | Several trees and power lines down along Pond Rd. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Koshkonong | $2,000 | Multiple trees down with some covering a road near Lake Koshkonong. |
| July 2024 | Flood | Lake Koshkonong | $1,000 | Floodwaters affect homes and boat docks in the Blackhawk Island area of Lake Koshkonong on the north side of the lake. Floodwaters spread over low spots on Blackhawk Island Road in the area where the Rock River enters the lake. |
| July 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Lake Koshkonong | - | An EF0 tornado developed near the intersection of STH 26 and Rock-Jefferson County Line Rd., about 6.6 miles southwest of Fort Atkinson. The tornado damaged tree limbs along the roughly 2.75 mile path that averaged 40 yards in width. The tornado dissipated about 5.3 miles south of Fort Atkinson, just south of the intersection of Poeppel Rd. and Grogan Rd. The EF0 estimated winds of 75-80 mph were based on DI 27(TH) DOD2. The exact start location is Lat 42.84620 and Lon -88.91638. The exact end location is Lat 42.85381 and Lon -88.86265. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Shore | 0.1 miles | 18 | |
| Blackhawk Island | 1.6 miles | 18 | |
| Vinnie Ha Ha | 2.2 miles | 18 | |
| Koshkonong Manor | 2.2 miles | 18 | |
| Koshkonong Mounds | 2.5 miles | 19 | |
| Carcajou | 2.6 miles | 18 | |
| Busseyville | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Koshkonong | 4.4 miles | 19 |
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 Koshkonong | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1569691 | 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 1852244. 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.









