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Perkinstown, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 2005. It stands in Grover town. It lies in ZIP code area 54451. The Survey maps it on the Perkinstown quadrangle. It stands 1,480 feet above sea level.

Perkinstown within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Perkinstown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 72 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
1 August 1992Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2019Naturalunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestBEAR CREEK ROAD
21 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2000Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perkinstown in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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
September 2002Thunderstorm WindPerkinstown$70,000no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindPerkinstown$30,000no account filed
September 2010FloodPerkinstown$23,000Brush Creek flooded and caused a culvert along Forest Road 1417 to wash out and the road to collapse.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPerkinstown$3,000Trees were blown down across various parts of Taylor County.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindPerkinstown$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees along County Road M west of the intersection with Highway 13.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindPerkinstown$1,000Large tree branches were blown down south of Perkinstown.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindPerkinstown$1,000Law enforcement officials reported downed trees along County Road M and Richter Road.
September 2002HailPerkinstown$1,000no account filed
May 2013HailPerkinstown-Quarter sized hail fell east of Perkinstown.
May 2022HailPerkinstown-no account filed
May 2013HailPerkinstown-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindPerkinstown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Hughey5.5 miles9
Murat9.0 miles8
Hannibal9.8 miles7
Maplehurst10.0 miles7
Lublin10.5 miles7
Gilman10.5 miles7
Polley11.1 miles7
Bellinger13.2 miles6

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 PerkinstownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7169071The 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 1580118. 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.