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Lark, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Morrison town. It lies in ZIP code area 54126. The Survey maps it on the Morrison quadrangle. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Lark within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 Lark between 2018 and 2020, burning about 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
6 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources48
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources113718
29 April 2018Fireworks1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20
22 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources25
7 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources69
3 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources67

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lark: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Fels PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lark in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLark-A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 62 mph at a mesonet site near De Pere.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLark-Thunderstorms produced a wind gust to 59 mph at a Mesonet site in De Pere.

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Morrison2.3 miles9
Shirley3.0 miles9
Wayside4.1 miles9
Glenmore5.1 miles10
Langes Corners6.8 miles9
Denmark6.9 miles8
Olympic Village6.9 miles8
Kolb7.5 miles10

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 LarkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6489542The 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 1567848. 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.