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Tamarack, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Arcadia town. It lies in ZIP code area 54612. It lies near Norway Valley. The Survey maps it on the Tamarack quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Tamarack within Trempealeau 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

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Tamarack between 2000 and 2019, burning about 1,200 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
5 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019000
1 April 2000Arson/incendiarism1,200 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trempealeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Tamarack: 23 past producers, 11 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
A Solberg Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
B Kolstad Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bockenhauer Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Butman Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
C Hovell Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Castleberg Sandstone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Castleberg Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
D Bortle Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
D Schultz Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Darell Schultz Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Trempealeau County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tamarack in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindTamarack$3,000A roof was blown off a shed and a gravity box wagon was blown over south of Arcadia in the Pine Creek area.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindTamarack$2,000Trees were blown down near County Road F south of Arcadia.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindTamarack-An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred south of Arcadia.
May 2014HailTamarack-Quarter sized hail fell south of Arcadia in the Pine Creek area.
June 2014Flash FloodTamarack-Runoff from heavy rains caused water to go over several roads across southern Trempealeau County including County Roads D and T and Oak Ridge Drive.

Every storm recorded in Trempealeau 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
Pine Creek5.0 miles16
Dewey Corners5.4 miles12
Arcadia6.1 miles11
Dodge6.3 miles16
North Creek6.7 miles12
Frenchville6.9 miles11
Cortland (historical)6.9 miles16
Upper French Creek7.2 miles11

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 TamarackAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7680860The 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 1577849. 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.