Roosevelt, Wisconsin
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Pine Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 54501. It stands on Shepard Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moen Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,575 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1940 USGS Rhinelander quadrangle1:48000
- 1949 USGS Rhinelander quadrangle1:48000
- 1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Rhinelander quadrangle1:62500
- 1982 USGS Moen Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Rhinelander quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
150 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Roosevelt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 11 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | RASMUSSON FIRE |
| 15 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
| 14 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SOUTH SHORE |
| 7 July 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 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 Roosevelt: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faust Lake Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Foss Lake Road Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Jennie Webber Lake Sand Pit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pine Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roosevelt in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2014: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roosevelt | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees at Pine Lake and produced pea size hail. |
| October 2012 | Hail | Roosevelt | - | Nickel size hail fell north of Rhinelander. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malvern | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Starks | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Rhinelander | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Sugar Camp | 8.5 miles | 12 | |
| Gagen | 9.4 miles | 9 | |
| Newbold | 10.5 miles | 12 | |
| Monico | 10.7 miles | 8 | |
| Crescent Corner | 11.6 miles | 9 |
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 Roosevelt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7366398 | 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 1572566. 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.






