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North Prairie, Wisconsin

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in North Prairie Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53153. The Survey maps it on the Eagle quadrangle. 2,202 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

North Prairie within Waukesha County

Population over time

2 figures

North Prairie grew from 2,141 to 2,202 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,141
20202,202+61 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of North Prairie between 2008 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism3

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
25 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources518
27 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002498
30 May 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19128
23 April 2008Arson/incendiarism38 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources192
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources72
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources71
23 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources165

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha 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 North Prairie: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Dimension. 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
Genesee QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Perrens QuarryStoneUnknown
Bishop PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Evans Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Genesee Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Prairie in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2008Flash FloodNorth Prairie$62,990,000Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding across much of Waukesha County. Water reached depths of 3 feet or more and several cars stalled. This was one of 4 flash floods in Waukesha County that occurred on Junen 7th and 8th. Collectively, each of these 4 flash floods resulted in home and business damage along with some crop losses. It was nearly impossible to break down the damages by flash flood event. Therefore, the collective breakdown for all of Waukesha County is provided in this flash flood event.||The breakdown for residential home losses were: 1433 with minor damage, 188 with major damage, and 1 destroyed (total of $54.632 million for home losses). Business losses totaled $5.462 million. Crop losses were estimated at $1 million. Public sector damage wa|s about $2.9 million. There were several roads and bridges that sustained damage.
August 2008LightningNorth Prairie$150,000Lightning struck the roof of a home on Lakecrest Court. The fire resulted in major damage and the house not inhabitable.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNorth Prairie$10,000Eight wooden power poles blown over.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNorth Prairie$10,000Six to eight trees down blocking roads along and north of Sugden Road.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindNorth Prairie$5,000no account filed
August 2013Thunderstorm WindNorth Prairie$1,500One tree down and large branches down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Prairie$1,000A large tree snapped at the base.
April 2025HailNorth Prairie-Hail ranged from nickel sized to lime sized in the first round, then nickel to quarter sized hail in a second round.
July 2012HailNorth Prairie-A trained spotter reported large hail, measured to be 1 inch in diameter, that fell 2 miles east of North Prairie.
July 2006HailNorth Prairie-Hail covered the ground white at County Road GG and Rue Park Road.
April 2025HailNorth Prairie-no account filed
April 2025HailNorth Prairie-no account filed
June 2022HailNorth Prairie-no account filed
July 2006HailNorth Prairie-no account filed
May 2005HailNorth Prairie-no account filed
May 2001HailNorth Prairie-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindNorth Prairie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Genesee2.8 miles23
Genesee Depot2.9 miles23
Ottawa3.7 miles23
Jericho4.0 miles23
Saylesville4.6 miles23
Wales5.1 miles23
Eagle5.3 miles23
Eagleville5.7 miles24

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 North PrairieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3299058The 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 1570484. 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.