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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.

Spring Lake within Waushara County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

213 since 1992

Regional 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 burning92
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural6
Smoking6
Other causes5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks2

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
7 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesROCKET FIRE
27 September 2009Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSHELDON LTG STRIKE
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPARKING FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waushara County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Spring Lake. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.

Every storm recorded in Waushara 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
Lohrville2.4 miles8
Rodney (historical)3.1 miles14
Redgranite3.4 miles8
Bannerman4.0 miles14
Silver Lake4.2 miles8
Mount Morris6.5 miles8
Wautoma7.7 miles6
Auroraville9.0 miles8

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.