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Clarks Point, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Winneconne town. It lies in ZIP code area 54986. It stands on Arrowhead River. The Survey maps it on the Oshkosh NW quadrangle. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

Clarks Point within Winnebago County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched 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.

In the county-history sources

3,161 words on this township

History of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and Early History of the Northwest, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Winneconne Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Winneconne Town - 3,161 words.

Fires near this place

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Clarks Point between 2005 and 2020, burning about 990 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202039
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources60
29 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources3
7 May 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources36
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2
31 May 2014Debris and open burning275 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCTH MM
3 April 2019Arson/incendiarism386 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Clarks Point: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Broehm QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Doro QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Perry QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Winnebago County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Piacenza0.3 miles8
Indian Shores0.9 miles8
Lasleys Point1.7 miles8
Winneconne2.8 miles8
Winchester4.1 miles8
Butte des Morts4.6 miles8
Allenville5.0 miles10
Nichols Shore Acres5.3 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Clarks PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5127582The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1563125. 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.

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.