BlockFrom the record
One of 21 National Register listings published here for Bayfield County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Island Lake Camp
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Island Lake Rd., Drummond, 54873
- When was it listed? March 1982
- Category. building
- Town. Barnes town
- National Register reference number. 82000629 - 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
54 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Island Lake Camp between 1993 and 2019, burning about 72 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.2 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 2008 | Natural | 2.9 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | WALBERG LANE FIRE |
| 19 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Island Lake Camp: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Fire Tower Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect Near Ounce River | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect Near Ounce River | Copper | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
26 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Drummond, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Drummond | 1 killed | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Drummond | $1,500 | Trees were blown down across Tri Lakes Road. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Drummond | - | Multiple trees were down across a roadway. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Drummond | - | Trees were down onto power lines along County Road N near Drummond. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Drummond | - | Hail up to one inch fell for about 15 minutes. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Drummond | - | The storm downed a few trees and tree limbs onto roads and power lines in Drummond. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Drummond | - | A tree was downed onto a house by the storm. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Drummond | - | The Delta-Drummond Road was completely washed out near Drummond. Over 15 inches or rain was recorded in Drummond over the previous 48 hours, with much of it falling over the previous 6 to 12 hours. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Drummond | - | County Highway N in the vicinity of Pigeon Lake west of Drummond was impassible due to water over the road. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Drummond | - | A few trees were downed by the winds. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Drummond | - | Numerous trees were blown down on U. S. Highway 63 and its side roads between Drummond and Cable. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Drummond | - | Sporadic wind damage was reported along most roads. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Drummond | - | Trees were blown down around Drummond. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Drummond | - | Along with the hail, the storm blew down some small tree branches along U.S. Highway 63. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Drummond | - | Some small tree branches were blown down as well. The hail and wind were reported at Two Lakes Campground on Lake Owen. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Drummond | - | Trees blown down near Drummond. |
| October 2006 | Hail | Drummond | - | Hail 2 inches deep covered Highway N and Highway 27. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Drummond | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Drummond | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Drummond | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Drummond | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Drummond | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Drummond | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Drummond | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Drummond | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Drummond | - | no account filed |
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 82000629 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.
- 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.