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Stone Lake, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Sand Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 54876. The Survey maps it on the Stone Lake quadrangle. 186 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,316 feet above sea level.

Stone Lake within Sawyer County

Population over time

2 figures

Stone Lake grew from 178 to 186 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010178
2020186+8 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Stone Lake between 1992 and 2019, burning about 168 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 burning38
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
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
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sawyer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Stone Lake: 7 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Camp Fire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Carl & June Clark Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Clark's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harry & Gladys Dawn Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hungry Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Little Stone Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Marguerite Frey Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Norman & Mary Skille Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
P. & R. Clark Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Washburn County Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sawyer County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stone Lake in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindStone Lake$10,000Sawyer County dispatch reported multiple downed power lines on the east side of Sand Lake along County Highway F.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindStone Lake$10,000Thunderstorm winds toppled a large tree onto an electrical wire, almost causing a fire. Also, 1.5 miles west of Stone Lake a large oak tree fell across Highway 70 near Golden Pond Road. Also, on Lake Road trees were uprooted and went through the roof a garage and a chicken coop. A 125-year old white pine was uprooted and fell against a home, taking out a dormer. Power was lost for at least three days. Also, strong winds hit the southeast end of Stone Lake where tree loss was in the hundreds. Many boat lifts on the lake were flipped upside down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindStone Lake$500A large tree was blown down on Bouten Road.
April 2026HailStone Lake-Largest hail was half-dollar size with lots of smaller hail.
August 2025FloodStone Lake-Three to six inches of water was covering both lanes of Wisconsin 70 between Main and 1st Street North in Stone Lake.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindStone Lake-A few large oak trees were uprooted.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindStone Lake-A large tree branch larger than 10 inches in diameter broke and damaged a mobile home.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindStone Lake-Multiple trees were blown down. A few of of the trees were snapped at their bases.
July 2014HailStone Lake-There were dime to nickel sized hailstones.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindStone Lake-Some small trees and tree branches down near Highway 70/27 intersection.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindStone Lake-Three large white pines were blown down, causing extensive damage to a cabin on Lake Sissabagama.
May 2018HailStone Lake-no account filed
July 2017HailStone Lake-no account filed
May 2015HailStone Lake-no account filed
July 2011HailStone Lake-no account filed
June 2008HailStone Lake-no account filed
June 2007HailStone Lake-no account filed
May 2001HailStone Lake-no account filed
June 2001HailStone Lake-no account filed
June 2001HailStone Lake-no account filed
July 2000HailStone Lake-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindStone Lake-no account filed
May 1996HailStone Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sawyer 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
Hauer5.2 miles8
Edgewater7.9 miles8
Reserve8.5 miles9
Northwoods Beach8.7 miles9
Yarnell10.4 miles8
Lemington11.6 miles9
Wooddale11.9 miles8
Hayward11.9 miles8

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 Stone LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q9080021The 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 1574928. 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.