Paddock Lake, Wisconsin
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Paddock Lake Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53168. The Survey maps it on the Paddock Lake quadrangle. 2,919 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPaddock Lake fell from 2,992 to 2,919 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 | 2,992 | |
| 2020 | 2,919 | -73 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1893 USGS Silver Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1906 USGS Silver Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Paddock Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Silver Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Lake Geneva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Paddock Lake between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 218407 |
| 3 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 218317 |
| 4 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2000370 |
| 30 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 857 |
| 30 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1800402 |
| 1 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2001249 |
| 6 October 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2001153 |
| 15 October 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2001191 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Paddock Lake: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fischer Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hillard Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paddock Lake in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2013: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paddock Lake | $25,000 | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paddock Lake | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Lightning | Paddock Lake | $15,000 | A home in the Village of Salem experienced a smoldering fire in the attic after lightning struck nearby power lines and followed the lines into the house. The insulation on the home's electrical lines was burned off. The time of this event is estimated based on radar and forecast products tracking the thunderstorms that produced the lightning. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paddock Lake | $10,000 | Trees and tree branches fell onto power lines. |
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Paddock Lake | $10,000 | Torrential rainfall from thunderstorms caused flooding of roads and basements. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paddock Lake | $1,000 | Twenty foot tall tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paddock Lake | - | Powerful thunderstorms winds knocked down a few large trees. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paddock 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klondike | 1.2 miles | 19 | |
| Salem Oaks | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Salem | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| Salem Lakes | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Bristol | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Brighton | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Camp Lake | 3.6 miles | 19 | |
| Silver Lake | 3.9 miles | 19 |
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 Paddock Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2195560 | 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 1570989. 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.








