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Northwoods Beach, Wisconsin

9 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 Reserve quadrangle. It stands 1,329 feet above sea level.

Northwoods Beach within Sawyer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Northwoods Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 150 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning38
Misuse of fire by a minor26
Arson/incendiarism26
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Other causes11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks3

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
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyTRAILER
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGreat Lakes Agency32
5 September 1998Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresGreat Lakes AgencyFROMEL RD
13 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyMATTRESS
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Northwoods Beach: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. 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
Billy Boy Flowage Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Minnemac Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Windigo Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Windigo Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Reserve2.4 miles9
Chief Lake3.8 miles8
Little Round Lake4.0 miles8
Hayward8.1 miles8
Hauer8.3 miles8
Stone Lake8.7 miles8
Couderay9.7 miles9
Phipps10.3 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 Northwoods BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7060499The 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 1570535. 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.