Langlade, Wisconsin
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wolf River town. It lies in ZIP code area 54491. It stands on Rose Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Langlade quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1952 USGS Langlade quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Langlade quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Wabeno quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
1,407 words on this townshipHistory of Langlade County, Wisconsin, from U. S. Government Survey to Present Time, with Biographical Sketches, published 1922 names this settlement in its chapter on Wolf River Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Section 7 is also the site of the frame school erected in 1899. James Lambert and Q. Rose were members of the first school board. Isaac Thornberry erected the first house in the district. The school is located north of highway 64, principal commercial artery to eastern Langlade County from Antigo.
Passage source: History of Langlade County, Wisconsin, from U. S. Government Survey to Present Time, with Biographical Sketches, published 1922.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Wolf River Town - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
62 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Langlade between 1992 and 2020, burning about 35 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | LOST ISLAND |
| 6 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | EICKOFF VEHICLE |
| 6 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | JESSIE LAKE |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | FIRE OPTIC |
| 18 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 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
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Langlade: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Langlade in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2007: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langlade | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Langlade | - | Hailstones one to three inches in diameter occurred with the tornadic thunderstorm. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langlade | - | Trees down. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Langlade | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Langlade | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Lake | 2.8 miles | 8 | |
| Hollister | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Markton | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Four Corners | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Elton | 8.3 miles | 8 | |
| Lily | 10.3 miles | 10 | |
| Freeman | 12.2 miles | 10 | |
| Sherry Junction | 13.7 miles | 8 |
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 Langlade | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6486168 | 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 1579627. 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.




