Stark Explained

Stark or Starke may refer to:

Places

Antarctica and vicinity

• Stark Point, James Ross Island
• Stark Ridge, Churchill Mountains
• Stark Rock, south of the Crulls Islands

United States

• Starke, Florida, a city
• Stark, Georgia, an unincorporated community
• Stark, Illinois, an unincorporated community
• Stark, Kansas, a city
• Stark, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Stark, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Stark, New Hampshire, a town
• Stark, New York, a town
• Stark, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Stark, Wisconsin, a town
• Stark City, Missouri
• Stark County, Illinois
• Starke County, Indiana
• Stark County, North Dakota
• Stark County, Ohio
• Stark Township, Brown County, Minnesota

Elsewhere

• Stark (crater), on the Moon

People with the name

• Stark (surname), including Starke, and fictional characters
• Stark Young (1881–1963), American teacher and writer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Stark (The Longest Journey), a world in the video game
• Stark, in Michael Marshall Smith's novel Only Forward
• House Stark, in George R. R. Martin's works
• Tony Stark or Iron Man, a Marvel comic book character

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Stark (miniseries), based on Ben Elton's novel
• Stark (novel), by Ben Elton
• Stark, a 2005 album by Gregory Douglass

Brands and enterprises

• Štark, a food manufacturing company in Belgrade, Serbia
• Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards, in northeastern Missouri
• Stark Candy Company, later acquired by Necco
• Stark Corporation, a Thai holding company in the cable manufacturing industry
• Stark Group, a Danish building materials company

Properties on the United States National Register of Historic Places

• Stark Building, Waltham, Massachusetts
• Stark Park, Manchester, New Hampshire
• Stark Round Barn, near Unityville, South Dakota
• Starke Round Barn, near Red Cloud, Nebraska

Science and technology

• Stark effect, an optical phenomenon in physics
• Stark spectroscopy
• STARK (cryptography) (Scalable Transparent ARgument of Knowledge), a protocol in cryptography

Other uses

• Stark, a barley cultivar
• Stark Law, U.S., restricting physician self-referrals
• Stark Museum of Art, in eastern Texas
• Stark–Heegner theorem, in algebra
• TAC Stark, a Brazilian vehicle
• USS Stark, a former frigate of the United States Navy

See also

• Starck (disambiguation)
• Starkland, a record label
• Starks (disambiguation)