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Lamont, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Lamont town. It lies in ZIP code area 53530. The Survey maps it on the Wiota quadrangle. It stands 1,073 feet above sea level.

Lamont within Lafayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lamont between 2018 and 2020, burning about 32 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
27 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources427181
16 April 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019008
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018013
21 March 2018Debris and open burning23 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018012
15 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesYELLOWSTONE GUN RANGE FIRE
7 November 2020Debris and open burning6.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20064

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Lamont: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Stone. 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
Olson QuarryStoneUnknown
Scott QuarryStoneUnknown
Unnamed Prospect Along Apple BranCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Along Apple BranCopperOccurrence
Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Argyle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Carey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
George Wendtlandt, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lancaster QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Munson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lamont in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Tornado (EF2)Lamont$1,000,000Strong tornado developed west of Argyle and tracked to the north of it, hitting multiple barns and a church along it's path.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLamont$110,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindLamont$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLamont$3,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLamont$2,000Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts to an estimated 52 knots (60 mph) toppled several large trees and damagaed a power-line.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindLamont$2,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Fayette4.3 miles13
Wiota5.0 miles14
Red Rock5.4 miles12
Argyle6.3 miles13
Yellowstone (historical)6.5 miles13
Darlington7.2 miles12
Woodford7.6 miles13
Avon7.9 miles12

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 LamontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6482187The 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 1567819. 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.

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.