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Lake Owen, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Drummond town. It lies in ZIP code area 54832. The Survey maps it on the Drummond quadrangle. It stands 1,398 feet above sea level.

Lake Owen within Bayfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Lake Owen between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,246 acres in total. None 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
15 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBRULE NUMBER 3
11 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCABLE POWERLINE
26 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestPIONEER REDUX
24 August 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestPIONEER 3
7 July 2006Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCARTER ISLAND
4 July 2001Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestTWO LAKES 63

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bayfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Lake Owen: 19 past producers, 13 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver, Copper. 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
Unnamed Prospect Near Lake OwenCopper, SilverOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Lake OwenCopperOccurrence
Cable Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cable Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Charlotte G. Perry Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Crest View Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Drummond Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Drummond Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dudley Wallin Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Elmer E. Gruel Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bayfield 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
Lake Owen (historical)0.3 miles13
Cable4.5 miles9
Drummond4.8 miles13
Radspur6.9 miles9
Leonards7.6 miles9
Grand View10.5 miles9
Namekagon11.9 miles12
Sutherland12.5 miles11

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 OwenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6477265The 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 1581577. 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.