Spring Lake, Wisconsin
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marion town. It lies in ZIP code area 54982. The Survey maps it on the Spring Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Redgranite quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Spring Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
213 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Spring Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 19 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 | 92 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | ROCKET FIRE |
| 27 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SHELDON LTG STRIKE |
| 27 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | PARKING FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Lake in 1 storm report in 2022: 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Lake | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Spring Lake. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lohrville | 2.4 miles | 8 | |
| Rodney (historical) | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Redgranite | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Bannerman | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Silver Lake | 4.2 miles | 8 | |
| Mount Morris | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Wautoma | 7.7 miles | 6 | |
| Auroraville | 9.0 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1574683. 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.
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.



