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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.

Summit Lake within Langlade County

Population over time

2 figures

Summit 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.

YearPeople Change
2010144
2020141-3 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

71 since 1992

Regional 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 use18
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
26 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 1998Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBOGUS ROAD FIRE
9 May 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Langlade County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Enterprise Lake Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hunting River Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Koepenick Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Koepenick Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lower Post Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Otter Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pollock Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Langlade County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020HailSummit Lake-Quarter size hail fell in Summit Lake.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSummit Lake-Thunderstorm winds knocked trees onto power lines around Summit Lake.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSummit Lake-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in the Summit Lake area.
July 2013HailSummit Lake-Nickel size hail fell at Summit Lake.
July 2013HailSummit Lake-Golf ball size hail fell at Summit Lake.
June 2013HailSummit Lake-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Fox Lake.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindSummit Lake-Scattered trees were blown down near and south of Summit Lake by winds from a severe thunderstorm.
June 2012HailSummit Lake-Thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail at Summit Lake.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSummit 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 2004Thunderstorm WindSummit Lake-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSummit Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Langlade 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
Koepenick3.2 miles10
Elcho4.1 miles10
Kempster6.3 miles10
Post Lake7.5 miles11
Ormsby8.9 miles11
Pearson9.5 miles10
Bavaria10.0 miles11
Deerbrook10.2 miles9

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7637822The 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.