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Pine Lake, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Oma town. It lies in ZIP code area 54534. It lies near Paradise Island. The Survey maps it on the Pine Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,624 feet above sea level.

Pine Lake within Iron County

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

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Pine Lake between 1994 and 2017, burning about 76 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2007Natural2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 2001Debris and open burning20 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pine Lake: 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Water, Free. 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
Pine Lake Taconite DepositIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Pine Lake Taconite DepositIronProspectHematite, Magnetite
Layman's Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Layman's Creek Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pine Lake Rd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Iron 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
Mercer7.5 miles14
Van Buskirk9.0 miles14
Manitowish10.8 miles14
Gile12.7 miles14
Pence13.0 miles11
Montreal13.1 miles14
Germania13.3 miles14
Hurley13.6 miles14

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 Pine LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195242The 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 1571502. 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.