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Pike Lake, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Hartford town. It lies in ZIP code area 53027. The Survey maps it on the Hartford East quadrangle. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.

Pike Lake within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Pike Lake between 2018 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources257
25 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20223
1 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources229
6 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources403
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000045
30 April 2018Debris and open burning15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources223
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18185
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018053

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pike Lake: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Stiemke QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cedar Lake Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Slinger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Hartford2.0 miles15
Slinger3.3 miles15
Cedar Lake3.8 miles15
Saint Lawrence3.9 miles15
Thompson4.1 miles15
Ackerville4.5 miles15
Diefenbach Corners5.1 miles15
Cedar Creek6.6 miles15

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 Pike LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7193588The 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 1571384. 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.