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Three Lakes, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Three Lakes town. It lies in ZIP code area 54562. It stands on Townline Creek. The Survey maps it on the Three Lakes quadrangle. 605 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,663 feet above sea level.

Three Lakes within Oneida County

On record in Three Lakes

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Three Lakes grew from 605 to 605 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
2010605
20206050 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Three Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 97 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPEAT FIREWORKS
2 September 2008Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHOLDOVER FIRE
6 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSPIRIT
5 July 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSPIRIT LAKE POINT FIRE
4 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRICHMOND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Three Lakes: 8 past producers, 2 unknowns, 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
Bonack PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elton Gensler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Javen Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Little Moccasin Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maple Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
South Big Lake Loop Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
South Big Lake Loop Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spirit Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thunder Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Three Lakes in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 15 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 1996Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes$250,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes$30,000no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes$7,500Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Three Lakes. One of the trees fell onto a cabin.
June 1999HailThree Lakes$1,500no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Three Lakes. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-Thunderstorm winds downed and uprooted numerous trees in Three Lakes. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-Thunderstorm winds downed trees, including several ten inch maple trees, and power lines in Three Lakes.
September 2014HailThree Lakes-Quarter size hail fell at Three Lakes.
September 2014HailThree Lakes-Thunderstorms dropped hail to quarter size at Three Lakes.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-Thunderstorms produced winds estimated near 60 mph at Three Lakes.
July 2012Heavy RainThree Lakes-Thunderstorms produced 1.32 inches of rain in 35 minutes at Three Lakes.
August 2012HailThree Lakes-Penny size hail fell one mile southeast of Three Lakes.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-Trees and power lines were blown down in the town of Three Lakes.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines were blown down in the town of Three Lakes.
April 2008HailThree Lakes-Large hail fell in downtown Three Lakes and penny size hail covered a parking lot.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-Trees reported down 10 miles northwest of Three Lakes.
July 2008HailThree Lakes-no account filed
April 2008HailThree Lakes-no account filed
July 2006HailThree Lakes-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-no account filed
August 2002HailThree Lakes-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-no account filed
June 1999HailThree Lakes-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-no account filed
July 1999HailThree Lakes-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-no account filed
July 1997HailThree Lakes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Clearwater Lake4.0 miles13
Sugar Camp8.0 miles12
Gagen9.5 miles9
Starks9.8 miles9
Roosevelt11.9 miles9
Malvern14.7 miles9
Monico15.3 miles8
Rhinelander17.3 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 Three LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7797561The 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 1575410. 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.