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Webb Lake, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Webb Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 54830. It stands on Nelson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Webb Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.

Webb Lake within Burnett County

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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Webb Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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 burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Other causes6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural4
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 1997Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2001Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLOST POWER
4 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Burnett County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Webb Lake in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWebb Lake$500A 10-inch diameter healthy oak tree was blown down.
June 2018FloodWebb Lake-The St. Croix River near Danbury set a record stage of 11.66 feet at 12:30PM on June 18th. This beat the old record of 8.72 feet set April 24th, 2001. Due to this flooding, Wisconsin Highway 35, which is where the gauge is located, was closed.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWebb Lake-Numerous trees were blown down along County Road A from Bushy Road through Sand Lake and the Voyagers Village area. Numerous trees fell on homes and cabins and blocked driveways.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWebb Lake-There was widespread tree damage. All power lines along County Road H between Webb Lake and Fish Lake were blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWebb Lake-A stand of Norway pines, 18 inches in diameter, was blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWebb Lake-Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWebb Lake-A 12 inch diameter tree was blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWebb Lake-A 10 inch diameter tree was blown down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWebb Lake-Multiple powr poles were blown down and blocking Highway 77.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWebb Lake-Numerous trees were blown down.
August 2024HailWebb Lake-no account filed
May 2022HailWebb Lake-no account filed
July 2018HailWebb Lake-no account filed
May 2017HailWebb Lake-no account filed
July 2012HailWebb Lake-no account filed
August 2008HailWebb Lake-no account filed
July 2008HailWebb Lake-no account filed
August 2000HailWebb Lake-no account filed
September 1996HailWebb Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burnett 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
Riverside7.6 miles8
Woodland Corner10.8 miles8
Danbury12.6 miles8
Oakland13.5 miles14
Hertel14.0 miles14
Yellow Lake14.5 miles14
Webster15.4 miles14
Bashaw17.0 miles13

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 Webb LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7978661The 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 1576370. 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.

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.