Franklin Lake Campground

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Franklin Lake Campground is located in Hiles, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Franklin Lake Campground, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Forest County · listed in 1988 · category: District · built in 1936.

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

The listing

Address. National Forest Rd. 2181, Alvin, 54562
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. district
Town. Hiles town
When was it built? 1936
National Register reference number. 88001573 - 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Franklin Lake Campground between 1992 and 2019, burning about 14 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
29 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	GOODYEAR
31 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	LUCKY 13
30 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	MCKINLEY HILL
3 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	SPOOK
24 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	IN BETWEEN
17 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	FOUR DUCKS
7 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	ANTE UP ANNIVERSARY
7 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	ANTE UP

Every fire recorded in Forest County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Franklin Lake Campground: 2 occurrences. 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
	Anvil Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
	Ninemile Creek Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Forest County

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alvin, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2007: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	$2,000	no account filed
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	-	Numerous trees down between Alvin and Newald.
June 2007	Hail	Alvin	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	-	no account filed
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	-	no account filed
August 2000	Lightning	Alvin	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvin	-	no account filed
July 1999	Flash Flood	Alvin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Forest 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 88001573 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Forest County	All 9 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.