BlockLark, North Dakota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Lark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58535. The Survey maps it on the Lark quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1954 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Lark quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lark in 2016, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June 2016 | Natural | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LARRY VETTER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lark in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Hail | Lark | $25,000 | The house roof was damaged. Some tree branches were broken by the winds that accompanied the hail. Corn leaves were shredded. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lark | $5,000 | The wind tore some shingles off of the roof, and a cottonwood tree had some branches broken off and leaves stripped. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lark | - | Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lark | - | Hail up to golf ball size lasted for 15 minutes. No damage reports were received. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lark | - | No damage was reported. |
| July 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Lark | - | A tornado was reported by a trained spotter as being on the ground around 8 miles west of Flasher. Flasher is in Morton County. The tornado was reported to be in Grant County, and lifted while it was still in Grant County. No structures were impacted and so there was no damage. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Lark | - | Tornado touched down in open country causing no damage. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Lark | - | Reported by a NWS cooperative observer. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lark | - | Cooperative observer reported tree's down. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lark | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lark | - | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lark | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Lark | - | no account filed |
| March 2020 | Hail | Lark | - | no account filed |
| March 2020 | Hail | Lark | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lark | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Lark | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Lark | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Lark | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Lark | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lark | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raleigh | 8.1 miles | 5 | |
| Brisbane | 9.1 miles | 5 | |
| Carson | 9.3 miles | 5 | |
| Saint Gertrude | 12.2 miles | 5 | |
| Freda | 13.9 miles | 5 | |
| Leith | 14.3 miles | 5 | |
| Heil | 16.7 miles | 5 | |
| Wollman Ranch Colony | 20.7 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1029839. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.
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.