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Pelican Lake, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Schoepke town. It lies in ZIP code area 54463. It lies near Antigo Island. The Survey maps it on the Elcho quadrangle. It stands 1,601 feet above sea level.

Pelican Lake within Oneida County

On record in Pelican 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Pelican Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
27 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesESCAPE CAMPFIRE
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesOLD ELCHO
9 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Pelican Lake: 8 past producers, 7 occurrences. 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
Bishop Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Enterprise Lake Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Guths Bay Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lower First Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Otter Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pelican Lake Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Pelican Lake Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Pelican Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pelican Lake Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Pelican Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pelican Lake in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Thunderstorm WindPelican Lake$100,000Thunderstorm winds downed several six to eight inch diameter trees at Pelican Lake.
September 2001Tornado (F0)Pelican Lake$65,500no account filed
July 2019HailPelican Lake$50,000Half dollar size hail fell at Pelican Lake.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindPelican Lake$25,000no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindPelican Lake-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Pelican Lake. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2017HailPelican Lake-Hail that was at least 2 inches in diameter fell at Pelican Lake.
June 2007HailPelican Lake-Hail shaped like eggs.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPelican Lake-Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down about a dozen trees between Pelican Lake and Monico.
July 2003Flash FloodPelican Lake-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindPelican Lake-no account filed
July 2000FloodPelican Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Pratt Junction1.2 miles10
Enterprise4.9 miles10
Jennings5.1 miles9
Lennox5.1 miles9
Monico5.3 miles8
Malvern9.8 miles9
Gagen11.4 miles9
Starks11.7 miles9

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 Pelican LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7161405The 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 1571153. 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.