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Starks, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Stella town. It lies in ZIP code area 54501. The Survey maps it on the Starks quadrangle. It stands 1,631 feet above sea level.

Starks within Oneida 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Starks between 1992 and 2018, burning about 156 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use17
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
26 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSTELLA LAKE FIRE
2 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesRASMUSSON FIRE
12 August 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTHIRD LAKE CAMPFIRE
30 July 1992Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesIRRIGATION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Starks: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them 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
Axelelson Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gagen Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gagen Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ginty Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hiles Junction Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Twin Lakes Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Twin Lakes Creek Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Twin Lakes Creek Gravel Deposit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Starks in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2012: 2 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 2012HailStarks-Thunderstorms produced nickel size hail at Starks.
July 1999HailStarks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Gagen4.4 miles9
Roosevelt5.0 miles9
Malvern5.1 miles9
Monico6.9 miles8
Three Lakes9.8 miles13
Rhinelander10.2 miles9
Sugar Camp10.3 miles12
Enterprise11.6 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 StarksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7602017The 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 1574816. 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.