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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 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 Reserve quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Spooner quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
177 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 41 |
| Debris and open burning | 38 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 26 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 13 |
| Other causes | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
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 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Great Lakes Agency | TRAILER |
| 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 |
| 13 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Great Lakes Agency | MATTRESS |
| 1 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billy Boy Flowage Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Minnemac Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Windigo Lake Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Windigo Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reserve | 2.4 miles | 9 | |
| Chief Lake | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Little Round Lake | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Hayward | 8.1 miles | 8 | |
| Hauer | 8.3 miles | 8 | |
| Stone Lake | 8.7 miles | 8 | |
| Couderay | 9.7 miles | 9 | |
| Phipps | 10.3 miles | 8 |
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 Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7060499 | 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 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.





