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Lake Wissota, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lafayette town. It lies in ZIP code area 54729. It stands on Stillson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Wissota quadrangle.

Lake Wissota within Chippewa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Lake Wissota between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. None 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
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
21 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources181722
7 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19130
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18097
8 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19097
7 April 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18092
25 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000947

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lake Wissota: 5 producers, 2 unknowns. 5 still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chippewa County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Chippewa Cty. Hwy. Dept. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Colony PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Perrenoud PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Psd Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Toutant PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chippewa 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
Bateman1.8 miles14
Anson3.8 miles14
Norma4.0 miles14
Chippewa Falls4.9 miles15
Irvine6.3 miles15
Hallie7.6 miles15
Cadott8.1 miles11
Lake Hallie8.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1567766. 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.