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Barre Mills, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Barre town. It lies in ZIP code area 54601. It lies near Garbers Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Saint Joseph quadrangle. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Barre Mills within La Crosse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Barre Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020052
14 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002887
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8048
27 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018034
19 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001898
22 November 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1906274
15 November 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 November 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1906110

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Crosse County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Barre Mills: 5 past producers, 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
Bahr QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clements QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kedhara QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lacrosse County OperationsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schams QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Yy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in La Crosse County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barre Mills in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 1999Thunderstorm WindBarre Mills$150,000no account filed
June 2008Tornado (EF1)Barre Mills$93,000A tornado occurred at 5:45 p.m. CDT in La Crosse County, WI, near Barre Mills and it was surveyed by a National Weather Service meteorologist on Sunday, June 8th. The tornado initially touched down just west of Russian Coulee Road approximately two miles east of Barre Mills (La Crosse County). There the tornado destroyed one metal barn and partially unroofed another. Much of the debris from the first barn was thrown to the north; however, some of its debris was scattered to the east for nearly a half mile up a hill. A family of five heard the tornado and they took cover in a basement. Fortunately no one was injured.||The tornado then proceeded over a hill and moved through another farmstead. It destroyed a barn and unroofed much of the adjacent house. Both soft and hardwood trees were either snapped or uprooted. ||The tornado then moved through several wooded areas as it crossed County Road II, Antony Road, County Road II again, and then Highway 162 near Souchek Road.||The path of this tornado was about 6 miles long with an average width of 600 feet. It has an EF1 rating (estimated wind speeds of 90 to 110 mph). Several nearby neighbors saw the tornado as it moved through both farmsteads.
March 1998HailBarre Mills$10,000no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBarre Mills$2,000Trees were blown down in Barre Mills.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBarre Mills$2,000The northbound lane of County Highway YY was blocked east of Barre Mills when trees were blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBarre Mills$1,000A NWS employee reported a couple of trees and several large branches blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBarre Mills$1,000Large trees were blown down.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBarre Mills$200no account filed
June 2025Tornado (EF1)Barre Mills-This tornado developed near State Highway 33 several miles south of Barre Mills and caused extensive tree damage in the Valleywood Springs area. This tornado then moved northeast causing additional spotty tree damage before dissipating near the intersection of County Highways M and I. Valleywood Springs would be impacted by a second tornado 10 minutes later with each tornado having its own circulation and debris signature on radar.
June 2025Tornado (EF0)Barre Mills-This short lived tornado developed east of La Crosse and caused damage to trees in the Valleywood Springs area. This was the second tornado to affect this area as a previous EF-1 tornado moved through the Valleywood Springs area just 10 minutes prior.
July 2023HailBarre Mills-Public reported ping pong sized hail near Barre Mills.
August 2018Heavy RainBarre Mills-Near Barre Mills, 5.88 inches of rain fell.
July 2017HailBarre Mills-Ping pong ball size hail was reported in Barre Mills.
April 2014HailBarre Mills-no account filed
May 2013HailBarre Mills-no account filed
May 2011HailBarre Mills-no account filed
June 2001HailBarre Mills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in La Crosse 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
West Salem4.3 miles17
Holiday Heights4.9 miles18
Medary5.2 miles18
Cold Springs5.2 miles18
Saint Joseph5.4 miles16
Shelby5.6 miles18
Grand Crossing6.1 miles18
Onalaska7.1 miles17

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 Barre MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4863289The 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 1561196. 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.