Long Lake, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Long Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 54542. The Survey maps it on the Long Lake quadrangle. 59 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,558 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLong Lake grew from 50 to 59 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 | 50 | |
| 2020 | 59 | +9 (+18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1939 USGS Long Lake quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Long Lake quadrangle1:48000
- 1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Long Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
33 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Long Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2019010 |
| 8 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | RITCHIE ROAD |
| 22 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | NORTH SHORE |
| 22 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2019008 |
| 15 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | BIG 4 |
| 1 June 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | POPPLE |
| 1 June 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | ESCORT |
| 9 May 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | LONG LAKE ATV |
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Long Lake: 3 occurrences, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highline Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Popple River Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Turn Point Gravel Deposit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Turn Point Gravel Deposit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
13 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Lake in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Lake | $102,000 | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Long Lake | $15,000 | The tornado that formed near Argonne (Forest County) entered southwest Florence County at 7:46 pm CDT (1846 CST). Several large tree branches were broken (DI 28, DOD 2) before the tornado dissipated at 7:51 pm CDT (1851 CST). The average path width of the tornado in Florence County was 75 yards. |
| July 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Long Lake | - | A brief tornado formed at 7:22 pm CDT in the Hiles area in Forest County and continued southeast before dissipating at 7:26 pm CDT. Total path length is estimated to be 1.68 miles long, with a width of 90 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 76 mph. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Lake | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power poles in Long Lake. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Long Lake | - | Half dollar size hail fell near Long Lake and winds from the storms downed a few trees. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Lake | - | Several trees were downed by thunderstorm winds near 60 mph just east of Halsey Lake. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Long Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Long Lake | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Long Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Lake | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Long Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Long Lake | - | 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 Long Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6672800 | 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 1579744. 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.





