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Mole Lake, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Nashville town. It lies in ZIP code area 54520. It stands on Gliske Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mole Lake quadrangle.

Mole Lake within Forest County

On record in Mole Lake

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Mole Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks4
Smoking3
Other causes3

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
25 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 1998Smoking5.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPILE
9 July 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyIND SET RD
5 July 2009Recreation and ceremony3.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJACK PINE LANE
4 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyBALL DIAMOND
3 July 1995Fireworksunder an acreGreat Lakes Agency64

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Forest County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mole Lake: 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Lead. 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
Crandon Zn - Cu DepositCopper, Zinc, Lead, Gold, SilverProspect1975
Mole Lake ProspectZinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, GoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Forest County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mole Lake in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMole Lake$100,000Thunderstorms winds downed numerous trees and several miles of power lines blocking most of the roads in the southern Forest County town of Nashville. At least ten houses and two out buildings sustained at least minor damage from the fallen trees.
May 2022HailMole Lake-Golf ball size hail fell near Mole Lake.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMole Lake-High winds from thunderstorms downed isolated trees in Mole Lake.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMole Lake-no account filed
July 2000HailMole Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Forest 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
Nashville3.7 miles9
Keith (historical)5.7 miles11
Crandon7.7 miles11
Woodlawn9.2 miles11
Wisconsin Junction12.8 miles11
Atkins13.0 miles9
Argonne13.6 miles11
Hiles15.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1569643. 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.