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Legend Lake, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Menominee town. It lies in ZIP code area 54135. The Survey maps it on the Legend Lake quadrangle. 1,670 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Legend Lake within Menominee County

Population over time

2 figures

Legend Lake grew from 1,525 to 1,670 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
20101,525
20201,670+145 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

542 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 542 fires within 5 miles of Legend Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 368 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 73 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 burning144
Misuse of fire by a minor84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined83
Arson/incendiarism73
Fireworks48
Recreation and ceremony31
Equipment and vehicle use24
Smoking22
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Natural10
Other causes8
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresMenominee TribeCOOPWHERE'
5 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMenominee TribeSE BASS #2
5 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 1998Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMenominee TribeNOT 16 MB1
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMenominee TribePOWERLINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee 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 Legend Lake: 1 past producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Montoure Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Keshena2.9 miles8
Keshena Falls4.0 miles8
Middle Village9.0 miles8
Neopit14.7 miles7
Perote (historical)18.6 miles8
Zoar19.0 miles8

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 Legend LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1570791The 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 2399761. 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.