The last remaining piece of ice on Fountain Lake melted at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to record keeper Bill Malepsy, a local barber.

That makes April 23 the official date for the ice being out this year. It is one of the latest dates in a century of record-keeping.

The last piece of ice was on the eastern side of Dane Bay, along homes accessed via Botsford Avenue. The ice was still there Tuesday afternoon, Malepsy reported.

Dane Bay is on the southwest side of Fountain Lake. Blackmer Avenue runs parallel to its western shore.

The ice out is a glimmer of good news in what has been a long winter for Albert Leans, who woke up Tuesday with snow on the ground and this morning with frost on windows.

The latest the ice has lasted is April 30, which set the record in 1953. The ice has never lasted into May.

Here are the records going back to 1912:

1912 April 5

1913 April 3

1914 April 1

1915 April 10

1916 April 12

1917 April 12

1918 March 27

1919 March 26

1920 March 27

1921 March 18

1922 April 3

1923 April 14

1924 April 13

1925 March 25

1926 April 12

1927 March 24

1928 April 15

1929 March 28

1930 March 16

1931 March 15

1932 April 6

1933 April 4

1934 April 3

1935 April 25

1936 April 14

1937 April 12

1938 March 25

1939 March 30

1940 April 14

1941 April 8

1942 March 27

1943 April 3

1944 April 10

1945 March 25

1946 March 24

1947 April 15

1948 March 31

1949 April 9

1950 April 18

1951 April 27

1952 April 18

1953 April 30

1954 April 6

1955 April 8

1956 April 14

1957 April 9

1958 April 5

1959 April 11

1960 April 12

1961 April 15

1962 April 21

1963 April 2

1964 April 10

1965 April 20

1966 March 17

1967 March 29

1968 March 27

1969 April 12

1970 April 12

1971 April 13

1972 April 16

1973 March 24

1974 April 11

1975 April 25

1976 March 26

1977 March 28

1978 April 5

1979 April 19

1980 April 12

1981 March 25

1982 April 14

1983 April 11

1984 April 16

1985 March 31

1986 April 1

1987 March 23

1988 April 3

1989 April 9

1990 March 28

1991 April 3

1992 April 5

1993 April 15

1994 April 3

1995 March 27

1996 April 15

1997 April 6

1998 March 30

1999 March 29

2000 March 7

2001 April 12

2002 April 9

2003 April 2

2004 March 28

2005 April 4

2006 April 5

2007 March 27

2008 April 16

2009 April 3

2010 March 31

2011 April 8

2012 March 17

2013 April 23