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Lampson, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Brooklyn town. It lies in ZIP code area 54888. The Survey maps it on the Trego quadrangle. It stands 1,178 feet above sea level.

Lampson within Washburn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Lampson between 1992 and 2019, burning about 102 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHORNETS NEST
10 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 1997Fireworks4.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2001Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2018Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLAKESIDE FIRE
3 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washburn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Lampson: 18 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Chauncey Jacobsen Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chauncey Jacobsen Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Edward Stueckler Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ernest Zieroth Jr. Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Fred & Lucille Bohne Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
G. M. Thompson Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Haugen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Johana C. Davis Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lavern Graham Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Namekagon River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Washburn County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lampson in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLampson-Trees were down along County Highway F between County Highway K and Highway 53.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLampson-Trees were blown down across Highway 53.
June 2023HailLampson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washburn 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
Trego5.8 miles8
Earl5.8 miles8
Springbrook7.2 miles8
Minong8.0 miles9
Harmon (historical)9.8 miles9
Stanberry10.2 miles9
Chittamo11.3 miles9
Spooner11.7 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 LampsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6482665The 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 1567822. 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.