Park Ridge, Wisconsin
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Stevens Point City. It lies in ZIP code area 54481. The Survey maps it on the Stevens Point quadrangle. 530 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPark Ridge grew from 491 to 530 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 491 | |
| 2020 | 530 | +39 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Stevens Point quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Stevens Point quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
190 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Park Ridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 51 |
| Debris and open burning | 44 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 39 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 August 2013 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | STOCKTON RR #4 |
| 8 August 2013 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | STOCKTON RR FIRE #5 |
| 8 August 2013 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | STOCKTON RR #3 |
| 8 August 2013 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | STOCKTON RR #1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Park Ridge in 19 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park Ridge | $530,000 | Widespread thunderstorms wind damage occurred in the Stevens Point and Whiting areas. There were pockets of more significant damage from downtown Stevens Point south to Whiting. Hundreds of trees were blown down or had broken branches and limbs. Stevens Point lost $108,000 worth of city-owned trees in the storm. One home was destroyed, 8 were heavily damaged and 72 sustained minor damage from the storm. The storm left 17,000 customers without electrical power. |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Park Ridge | $500,000 | Heavy rainfall caused significant urban flooding near downtown Stevens Point. Several underpasses were impassable. At least two roads were damaged when rain washed out culverts. There were at least 15 homes impacted by the heavy rain. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Park Ridge | $300,000 | Heavy rain in Stevens Point caused flash flooding on the UW-Stevens Point campus, at St. Michaels Hospital and at the County Courthouse and submerged cars on some streets. A low crossing under a railroad bridge in Stevens Point remained closed for much of the next day while the water slowly drained. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park Ridge | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked a two foot diameter tree down onto a house, damaging a part of the roof and gutters. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Park Ridge | - | Golf ball size hail fell in Stevens Point. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Park Ridge | - | Quarter size hail fell in Stevens Point. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park Ridge | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and a power pole as well as producing extensive damage to a house. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| October 2020 | Hail | Park Ridge | - | Quarter size hail fell in Stevens Point. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park Ridge | - | Thunderstorm winds downed many trees at an apartment complex. The downed trees were about 1 foot in diameter. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park Ridge | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Stevens Point. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park Ridge | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Stevens Point. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park Ridge | - | Thunderstorm winds downed three trees and power lines in Stevens Point. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Park Ridge | - | A thunderstorm dropped golf ball size hail as it passed through the Stevens Point area. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park Ridge | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines as the storms moved through Stevens Point. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Park Ridge | - | Nickel size hail fell in the Stevens Point area. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Park Ridge | - | Thunderstorms produced nickel size hail at the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Patch Street in Stevens Point. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Park Ridge | - | Quarter size hail was reported at Stevens Point. The time of this event was estimated based on radar data. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Park Ridge | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Stevens Point. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Park Ridge | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Park Ridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2674898 | 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 1571045. 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.



