Round Lake Logging Dam

Built in 1876. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Round Lake Logging Dam is a historic dam on the south fork of the Flambeau River eighteen miles east of Fifield, Wisconsin, United States, where the river flows out of Round Lake. This earth and timber dam was originally built around 1880 to help lumber companies drive logs down the Flambeau River to sawmills around Eau Claire and beyond on the Mississippi.”
Wikipedia article Round Lake Logging Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Price County · listed in 1981 · category: Structure · built in 1876.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE of Fifield, Fifield, 54552
When was it listed? September 1981
Category. structure
Town. Fifield town
When was it built? 1876
National Register reference number. 81000055 - 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Round Lake Logging Dam between 1992 and 2020, burning about 107 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	DOUBLE NEWMAN
14 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	CHICKADEE
3 July 2007	Fireworks	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	PIKE 1
3 July 2007	Fireworks	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	PIKE 2
2 July 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	EMILY 2
9 June 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	HARRIET LAKE
9 June 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	not named
6 June 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	PIKE

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Round Lake Logging Dam: 1 past producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Riley Creek Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Price County

Storms near this property

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fifield, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1995	Hail	Fifield	$600,000	Hail from 1.25 to three inches in diameter fell in and around Fifield between 1624 and 1635CST. An automobile dealership sustained $550 thousand worth of damage to inventory.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Fifield	$2,500	Trees were blown down near Pike Lake in the Chequamegon National Forest.
June 2017	Flash Flood	Fifield	$1,000	A culvert washed out along Old Highway 13/Case Avenue.
June 2017	Flood	Fifield	$1,000	Water flowed over Wisconsin State Highway 13 and Boyer Road near Fifield.
July 2020	Flash Flood	Fifield	-	Numerous roads were closed due to water in the town of Fifield.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Fifield	-	Scattered tree damage was observed in the area.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Fifield	-	There were numerous trees down across town.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Fifield	-	Downed trees blocked Highway 70 and power lines were down in Fifield WI.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Fifield	-	Widespread street flooding with water covering roadways occurred across mainly northern Price County, centered around the Fifield and Park Falls area.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Fifield	-	Trees were blown down near the intersection of Highway 70 and Highway 13.
October 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Fifield	-	At least two homes received minor damage, including blown out windows. One large tree and several limbs were downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Fifield	-	Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Fifield	-	Large trees and power lines were blown down on State Highway 13. Also, three-quarter inch diameter hail fell.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Fifield	-	Numerous trees were blown down and blocking Hwy 70.
August 2018	Hail	Fifield	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Fifield	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Fifield	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Fifield	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Fifield	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Fifield	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Fifield	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Fifield	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Fifield	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Fifield	-	no account filed
August 1993	Tornado (F0)	Fifield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Price 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000055 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Price County	All 12 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.
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.