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Arkdale, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Strongs Prairie town. It lies in ZIP code area 54613. The Survey maps it on the Arkdale quadrangle.

Arkdale within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

240 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Arkdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 238 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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 burning59
Equipment and vehicle use49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Arson/incendiarism25
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Recreation and ceremony11
Other causes8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks4
Natural2

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
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arkdale in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindArkdale$10,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindArkdale$10,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindArkdale$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindArkdale$2,000Trees were blown down in and near Arkdale.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindArkdale$2,000Trees were blown down in Arkdale.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindArkdale$1,500no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindArkdale$750no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindArkdale$250Large branches down.
May 2025HailArkdale-A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail 1 mile northwest of Arkdale.
May 2025HailArkdale-The public reported half dollar sized hail in Arkdale.
September 2025HailArkdale-The public reported penny sized hail in Arkdale.
March 2023HailArkdale-Half dollar sized hail was reported in Arkdale.
May 2016HailArkdale-Half dollar sized hail fell near Arkdale.
June 2016HailArkdale-Golfball sized hail was reported north of Friendship.
April 2008HailArkdale-no account filed
August 2004HailArkdale-no account filed
April 2002HailArkdale-no account filed
April 1994HailArkdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Roche a Cri (historical)3.4 miles7
Dellwood4.0 miles10
Cottonville4.8 miles7
Strongs Prairie5.2 miles8
Friendship5.4 miles10
Adams6.1 miles10
Monroe Center6.5 miles8
Big Flats7.2 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1560936. 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.