Little Round Lake, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Bass Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 54843. The Survey maps it on the Chief Lake quadrangle.

Little Round Lake within Sawyer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1944 USGS Couderay quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Couderay quadrangle1:48000
1953 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Chief Lake quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Spooner quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

262 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 262 fires within 5 miles of Little Round Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 246 acres in total. None started naturally. 46 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/undetermined	64
Arson/incendiarism	46
Debris and open burning	45
Misuse of fire by a minor	42
Power generation/transmission/distribution	23
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Other causes	10
Fireworks	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
9 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Great Lakes Agency	HALFWAY TR
6 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Great Lakes Agency	32
5 September 1998	Other causes	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Great Lakes Agency	FROMEL RD
16 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Great Lakes Agency	CAR FIRE
14 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FENCE LINE 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer 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 Little Round Lake: 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
	Sawyer County Peninsula Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sawyer 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Chief Lake	3.2 miles	8
Northwoods Beach	4.0 miles	9
Reserve	5.9 miles	9
Hayward	7.0 miles	8
Phipps	7.2 miles	8
New Post	10.8 miles	11
Seeley	10.8 miles	8
Couderay	12.1 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867662. 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.