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Paris, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Paris town. It lies in ZIP code area 53182. The Survey maps it on the Union Grove quadrangle. It stands 755 feet above sea level.

Paris within Kenosha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Paris between 2018 and 2020, burning about 22 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning4

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
10 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources218407
3 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources218317
14 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources393
10 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources293
5 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources27
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800402
14 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources28
11 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources25

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kenosha County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paris in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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
August 2001Tornado (F0)Paris$10,000A weak tornado spun up in north-central Kenosha County, about 3.5 miles northeast of Paris. It pushed over an old shed, a TV antenna, and uprooted several trees on a property located on the south side of County Hwy KR. Based on damage, wind speeds were probably in the 70 to 78 knot range (80 to 90 mh). This tornado exited Kenosha County about 3.7 miles northeast of Paris, or .8 miles east of the intersection of KR and D, and entered Racine County about 2.8 miles east-southeast of Union Grove. It proceeded northeast toward the intersection of Interstate 94 and Highway 11, and eventually dissipated 1.8 miles northwest of Sturtevant. Synoptically, a 500 mb circulation center moved northeast through southeast Wisconsin at the time of the tornado. Scattered thunderstorms associated with the low moved northeast at about 30 mph. Maximum air temperatures during the afternoon were in the lower 80s with surface dewpoints in the mid to upper 60s.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindParis$4,000Trees and power lines down including a 40 foot tree on a road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindParis$2,000Two power poles down in Paris.
May 2014Flash FloodParis$1,000Highway 45 was flooded and closed. A man was rescued from the top of his vehicle with the water up to the windows.
April 2020Heavy RainParis$500High water around 1.5-2.0 feet deep at the intersection of 38th St. and highway D.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindParis-no account filed
August 2003HailParis-no account filed
October 2001HailParis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kenosha 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
Brighton2.6 miles18
Klondike4.7 miles19
Paddock Lake4.8 miles19
Bristol5.2 miles19
Salem Oaks5.6 miles19
Woodworth5.9 miles19
Salem6.3 miles19
Somers7.5 miles16

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 ParisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7137193The 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 1571034. 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.

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.