Lakewood, Wisconsin
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lakewood town. It lies in ZIP code area 54138. The Survey maps it on the Townsend quadrangle. 241 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,280 feet above sea level.
On record in Lakewood
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 2 records
Holt and Balcom Logging Camp No.1listed 1978
Smyth Road Bridgelisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresLakewood fell from 323 to 241 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 | 323 | |
| 2020 | 241 | -82 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1942 USGS Wabeno quadrangle1:48000
- 1950 USGS Wabeno quadrangle1:48000
- 1951 USGS Wabeno quadrangle1:48000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Wabeno quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
144 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Lakewood between 1992 and 2019, burning about 192 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Fireworks | 9 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | STONEGATE |
| 1 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | HIGHWAY 32 DOT |
| 6 August 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | WHEELER ISLAND |
| 30 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | SCHOTTKY ROAD |
| 28 August 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 August 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 August 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 August 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | LOVER'S COVE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lakewood: 1 producer. All of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakewood in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2011: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakewood | - | Trees were knocked down on County Highway F, about eight miles northeast of Lakewood. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakewood | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Lakewood. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakewood | - | Trees and wires down. |
| May 2006 | Heavy Rain | Lakewood | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakewood | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Lakewood | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakewood | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Lakewood | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Lakewood | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Lakewood | - | 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.
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 Lakewood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q11688252 | 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 1579620. 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.






