Lake Tomahawk, Wisconsin
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lake Tomahawk town. It lies in ZIP code area 54539. The Survey maps it on the Lake Tomahawk quadrangle. 246 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,640 feet above sea level.
On record in Lake Tomahawk
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Tomahawk Lake Camp Historic Districtlisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresLake Tomahawk grew from 228 to 246 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 | 228 | |
| 2020 | 246 | +18 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1938 USGS Minocqua quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Minocqua quadrangle1:48000
- 1949 USGS Minocqua quadrangle1:48000
- 1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Minocqua quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Lake Tomahawk quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Rhinelander quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
84 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Lake Tomahawk between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined | 23 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | NORTH BAY FIRE |
| 15 August 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | LOST WOODS |
| 6 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lake Tomahawk: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corky Lake Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Gilmore Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pier Lake Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Rainbow Flowage Gravel Pit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Rainbow Flowage Gravel Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sureshot Lake Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
26 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Tomahawk in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 13 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tomahawk | $500,000 | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tomahawk | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tomahawk | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 2022 | Hail | Lake Tomahawk | - | Penny size hail fell in Lake Tomahawk. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tomahawk | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees east of Minoqua. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tomahawk | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped 18 inch diameter trees about 15 feet above the ground. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Lake Tomahawk | - | Quarter size hail fell southeast of Minocqua. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Lake Tomahawk | - | Pea to nickel size hail fell for five minutes north of Lake Tomahawk. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Lake Tomahawk | - | Thunderstorms produced nickel to quarter size hail and heavy rain at Lake Tomahawk. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Lake Tomahawk | - | Thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail near Lake Tomahawk. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Lake Tomahawk | - | Thunderstorms produced hail up to tennis ball size southeast of Lake Tomahawk. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Lake Tomahawk | - | Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail near Lake Tomahawk. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tomahawk | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees at Lake Tomahawk. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Lake Tomahawk | - | Penny size hail fell accompanied by torrential rain at Lake Tomahawk. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Lake Tomahawk | - | Walnut size hail was reported at Lake Tomahawk. The report was relayed to the National Weather Service from WJFW-TV in Rhinelander. |
| August 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Lake Tomahawk | - | Brief touchdown |
| April 2008 | Hail | Lake Tomahawk | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tomahawk | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tomahawk | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tomahawk | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tomahawk | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tomahawk | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tomahawk | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Lake Tomahawk | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Lake Tomahawk | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Lake Tomahawk | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunflower | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| McNaughton | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Hazelhurst | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Rantz | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Minocqua | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Woodruff | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Goodnow | 9.1 miles | 12 | |
| Newbold | 9.2 miles | 12 |
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 Tomahawk | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6478060 | 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 1567755. 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.







