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Christie, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Weston town. It lies in ZIP code area 54456. It stands on Christie Mound. The Survey maps it on the Loyal West quadrangle. It stands 1,175 feet above sea level.

Christie within Clark 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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Christie between 2009 and 2018, burning about 2 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
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
19 August 2018Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources29
28 April 2009Debris and open burning1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHANSEN BARN BURNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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 Christie: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Greenwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kurasz PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

14 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Christie in 14 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 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 2024Tornado (EF1)Christie$88,000This tornado damaged several farmsteads, powerlines, and trees. It was strongest to the west of Loyal, with the path becoming weaker and less defined to the north of town.
September 2010FloodChristie$50,000County Road H washed out just west of the intersection with State Highway 73.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindChristie$10,000Farm outbuildings were damaged east of Christie.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindChristie$7,500Law enforcement reported a silo blown off at the intersection of County Road H and Owen Avenue.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindChristie$3,000Northeast of Neillsville, several trees were blown down with one landing on some power lines.
May 2025Tornado (EF0)Christie$1,000This tornado developed in rural areas of Clark County, WI between Christie and Loyal. As the tornado moved northeast, it damaged multiple trees and removed a portion of the roof from a farm building.
June 2018Flash FloodChristie$1,000Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Black River out of its banks with the flood waters going over County Road H west of Christie.
May 2025Tornado (EF1)Christie-This brief tornado snapped the trunks of a few large trees south of Christie. The diameter of the largest tree that was snapped supported an EF1 rating.
September 2015Heavy RainChristie-An estimated five inches of rain fell south of Christie.
May 2014HailChristie-Enough pea to nickel size hail fell that the ground was covered 2 inches deep.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindChristie-A severe thunderstorm produced an estimated wind gust of 60 mph.
September 2010HailChristie-no account filed
July 2003HailChristie-no account filed
July 2003HailChristie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Globe3.4 miles12
Neillsville6.0 miles11
Sidney6.9 miles11
Kurth (historical)7.3 miles11
Loyal8.2 miles11
Granton8.2 miles11
Greenwood8.5 miles11
Willard8.9 miles12

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 ChristieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5110654The 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 1563062. 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.