Lamar, Wisconsin

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Lamar Community Centerlisted 1982 · 0.1 miles away

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.

• 1900 USGS St Croix Dalles quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS St Croix Dalles quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS St Croix Dalles quadrangle1:62500
• 1955 USGS St. Croix Dalles quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS St. Croix Dalles NE quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Centuria quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lamar between 1997 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. None 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Dresser
• Saint Croix Falls
• Centuria
• Eureka Center
• Sand Lake

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Lamar: 12 occurrences, 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, 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.

Every working recorded in Polk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577689. 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.