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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.

Lakewood within Oconto County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Lakewood 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.

YearPeople Change
2010323
2020241-82 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

144 since 1992

Regional 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 burning30
Equipment and vehicle use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Recreation and ceremony13
Arson/incendiarism11
Fireworks9
Smoking8
Natural4
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 2009Fireworksunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestSTONEGATE
1 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestHIGHWAY 32 DOT
6 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestWHEELER ISLAND
30 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestSCHOTTKY ROAD
28 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2018Fireworksunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestLOVER'S COVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconto County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLakewood-Trees were knocked down on County Highway F, about eight miles northeast of Lakewood.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLakewood-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Lakewood.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLakewood-Trees and wires down.
May 2006Heavy RainLakewood-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLakewood-no account filed
July 2004HailLakewood-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindLakewood-no account filed
June 2000HailLakewood-no account filed
May 1998HailLakewood-no account filed
September 1996HailLakewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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
Townsend4.0 miles12
Mountain8.4 miles11
Bonita13.0 miles9
Logan16.2 miles9
Breed16.6 miles9
Hayes21.4 miles6
Suring22.3 miles6
Frostville22.9 miles9

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 LakewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11688252The 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.