Falls City, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Spring Brook town. It lies in ZIP code area 54739. The Survey maps it on the Falls City quadrangle. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Falls City within Dunn 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.

1940 USGS Menomonie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1942 USGS Menomonie quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Falls City quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Falls City between 2004 and 2020, burning about 399 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18020
2 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2020008
2 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20022
14 May 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2009	Fireworks	390 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	MUDDY CREEK WILDLIFE AREA
28 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dunn County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Falls City: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Chippewa River Gravel Deposit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Elton Talford Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fry Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Lightfoot Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Robert Talford Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dunn 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Meridean	4.2 miles	12
Caryville	5.9 miles	13
Elk Mound	6.7 miles	13
Rock Falls	6.8 miles	12
Old Tyrone (historical)	7.0 miles	12
Rusk	8.4 miles	12
Downsville	8.8 miles	13
Dunnville	9.0 miles	12

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 Falls City	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5432465	The 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 1564847. 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.