Summit Lake, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Upham town. It lies in ZIP code area 54485. The Survey maps it on the Elcho quadrangle. 141 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,722 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSummit Lake fell from 144 to 141 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 | 144 | |
| 2020 | 141 | -3 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1942 USGS Elcho quadrangle1:48000
- 1950 USGS Elcho quadrangle1:48000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Elcho quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Merrill quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
71 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Summit Lake between 1992 and 2018, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 July 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 July 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 June 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 June 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BOGUS ROAD FIRE |
| 9 May 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 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
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Summit Lake: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Lake Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hunting River Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Koepenick Road Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Koepenick Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lower Post Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Otter Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pollock Creek Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit Lake in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Hail | Summit Lake | - | Quarter size hail fell in Summit Lake. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summit Lake | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked trees onto power lines around Summit Lake. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summit Lake | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in the Summit Lake area. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Summit Lake | - | Nickel size hail fell at Summit Lake. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Summit Lake | - | Golf ball size hail fell at Summit Lake. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Summit Lake | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Fox Lake. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summit Lake | - | Scattered trees were blown down near and south of Summit Lake by winds from a severe thunderstorm. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Summit Lake | - | Thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail at Summit Lake. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summit Lake | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees, causing damage at Bass Lake Country Club and Golf Course. The strong winds also lifted a paddle boat, that was on Summit Lake, out of the water and carried it up a hill. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summit Lake | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summit 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 Summit Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7637822 | 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 1575061. 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.





