BlockFrom the record
One of 21 National Register listings published here for Bayfield County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Forest Lodge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- Address. Garmisch Rd., Namakagon, 54821
- When was it listed? February 2002
- Category. building
- Town. Namakagon town
- National Register reference number. 02000031 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
44 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Forest Lodge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | MCCLOUD LAKE |
| 2 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | EAGLE POINT |
| 1 September 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | GARDEN LAKE |
| 28 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | CASTLE 2 |
| 26 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | PIONEER REDUX |
| 4 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 July 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | OAK |
| 29 July 2007 | Natural | 3.2 acres | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | GHOST CREEK |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02000031 in Record Group 79. |
| Bayfield County | All 21 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.