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Coral City, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pigeon town. It lies in ZIP code area 54773. It lies near Thompson Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Pleasantville quadrangle. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Coral City within Trempealeau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Coral City between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
18 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources53
2 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources6021931
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5051820
8 April 2019Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources481921
2 November 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources34

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trempealeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Coral City: 20 past producers, 9 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Bautch Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Coral City Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
D Lyngen Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Eugene Rebarchek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
L Mcrae Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
N Osgood Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Nehring Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Riverside Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schaefer Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Trempealeau County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coral City in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 hail. 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
September 2016HailCoral City-Quarter sized hail fell north of Blair.

Every storm recorded in Trempealeau 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
Whitehall2.2 miles12
Pigeon Falls4.8 miles13
Pleasantville5.3 miles12
Hale6.0 miles12
Blair6.3 miles13
Elk Creek7.3 miles12
Independence7.7 miles12
New City (historical)8.9 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 Coral CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5169449The 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 1563395. 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.