Pelican Lake Hotel

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 2013 · category: Building · built in 1928.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 745 US 45, Schoepke, 54463
When was it listed? January 2013
Category. building
Town. Schoepke town
When was it built? 1928
National Register reference number. 12001188 - 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Pelican Lake Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Other causes	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
27 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ESCAPE CAMPFIRE
25 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	OLD ELCHO
9 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Pelican Lake Hotel: 9 past producers, 7 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Wolf River Prospect	Zinc, Copper	Unknown
Bishop Road Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Guths Bay Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lower First Lake Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Monico Gravel Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Monico Gravel Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Monico Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Otter Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pelican Lake Gravel Deposit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Pelican Lake Gravel Deposit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Oneida County

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.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Mecikalski General Store, Saloon, and Boardinghouse	4.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001188 in Record Group 79.
Oneida County	All 20 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.
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.