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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.

Lake Koshkonong within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,204
20201,239+35 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

1,406 words on this township

The 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 2013

Regional 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources132
22 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources107
31 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1903267
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources72
29 November 2013Debris and open burning7.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDEAD END

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Poyers QuarryStoneUnknown
Wolf Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLake Koshkonong$15,000Several 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 2024Tornado (EF0)Lake Koshkonong$15,000Minor 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 2016Thunderstorm WindLake Koshkonong$15,000Many trees and tree branches down on Lamp Road and Blackhawk Drive. A tree fell on a car.
March 2019FloodLake Koshkonong$10,000The 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 2023Thunderstorm WindLake Koshkonong$6,000Several trees and power lines down along Pond Rd.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindLake Koshkonong$2,000Multiple trees down with some covering a road near Lake Koshkonong.
July 2024FloodLake Koshkonong$1,000Floodwaters 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 2010Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
North Shore0.1 miles18
Blackhawk Island1.6 miles18
Vinnie Ha Ha2.2 miles18
Koshkonong Manor2.2 miles18
Koshkonong Mounds2.5 miles19
Carcajou2.6 miles18
Busseyville3.7 miles18
Koshkonong4.4 miles19

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 KoshkonongAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569691The 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.