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.
Population over time
2 figuresStone 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 178 | |
| 2020 | 186 | +8 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1948 USGS Stone Lake quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Stone Lake quadrangle1:48000
- 1953 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Stone Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Spooner quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
116 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 38 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | 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 |
| 31 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | 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
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Fire Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Carl & June Clark Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Clark's Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Harry & Gladys Dawn Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Hungry Lake Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Little Stone Lake Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Marguerite Frey Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Norman & Mary Skille Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| P. & R. Clark Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Washburn County Gravel Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone Lake | $10,000 | Sawyer County dispatch reported multiple downed power lines on the east side of Sand Lake along County Highway F. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone Lake | $10,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone Lake | $500 | A large tree was blown down on Bouten Road. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Stone Lake | - | Largest hail was half-dollar size with lots of smaller hail. |
| August 2025 | Flood | Stone Lake | - | Three to six inches of water was covering both lanes of Wisconsin 70 between Main and 1st Street North in Stone Lake. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone Lake | - | A few large oak trees were uprooted. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone Lake | - | A large tree branch larger than 10 inches in diameter broke and damaged a mobile home. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone Lake | - | Multiple trees were blown down. A few of of the trees were snapped at their bases. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Stone Lake | - | There were dime to nickel sized hailstones. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone Lake | - | Some small trees and tree branches down near Highway 70/27 intersection. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone Lake | - | Three large white pines were blown down, causing extensive damage to a cabin on Lake Sissabagama. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Stone Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Stone Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Stone Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Stone Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Stone Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Stone Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Stone Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Stone Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Stone Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Stone Lake | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone Lake | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Stone Lake | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q9080021 | 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 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.





