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Lawrence, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Westfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 53964. The Survey maps it on the Westfield West quadrangle. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Lawrence within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Lawrence between 1992 and 2020, burning about 274 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 9 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 burning65
Equipment and vehicle use47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural9
Other causes7
Fireworks4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3

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 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8TH AVE FIRE
4 September 2012Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLIGHTNING STRIKES 3
3 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCO M FIRE
3 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRANSFORMER 755
3 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 1996Natural4.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawrence in 1 storm report in 1994: 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
April 1994HailLawrence-Severe thunderstorms rolled across west-central, central and east- central Wisconsin generating two tornadoes, damaging winds, and hail up to the size of golf balls. A tornado briefly touched down three miles south of Luxemburg in Kewaunee County but did not cause any damage. Another tornado was observed near Cataract in Monroe County. This tornado damaged 30 trees, a barn and a picnic shelter. Thunderstorm downburst winds caused $250,000 in damage to 20 barns and numerous pieces of farm equipment from North Bend to Melrose in Jackson County. Violent thunderstorm winds ripped three roofs off businesses in Green Bay, Brown County.

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
Westfield2.7 miles10
Oxford7.2 miles11
Harrisville7.4 miles10
Packwaukee9.5 miles10
Buffalo Shore Estates10.6 miles12
Endeavor12.3 miles12
Budsin12.6 miles10
Douglas Center12.6 miles15

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 LawrenceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6503749The 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 1567886. 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.

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.