Meadow Lark Lake, Wyoming

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the South Big Horn census division. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brokenback Narrows quadrangle. 8 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 8,199 feet above sea level.

Meadow Lark Lake within Big Horn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1899 USGS Cloud peak quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Cloud Peak quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1901 USGS Cloud peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Brokenback Narrows quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Worland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Brokenback Narrows quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Meadow Lark Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 9 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
Recreation and ceremony	14
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	UNIT 12
8 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	STARGATE
5 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	LINE
30 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	TYRRELL
29 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.1 acres	Worland Field Office	CARTER
22 September 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Worland Field Office	MARKHAM
31 August 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	WEST TEN
23 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	EAST TENSLEEP CREEK

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Meadow Lark Lake: 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Claim Area	Uranium	Unknown
	Unknown	Uranium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Big Horn 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hyattville	19.1 miles	9
Shell	37.4 miles	16
Manderson	38.2 miles	9
Reeves Corner	40.2 miles	16
Flitners Corner	40.5 miles	16
Basin	44.0 miles	7
Greybull	47.7 miles	7
Otto	56.3 miles	7

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 Meadow Lark Lake	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1956159	The 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 1877176. 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.