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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1951 USGS Lublin quadrangle1:48000
- 1953 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Perkinstown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Medford quadrangle1:100000
- 2005 USGS Perkinstown quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
20 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 July 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | BEAR CREEK ROAD |
| 21 July 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2000 | Other causes | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 May 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perkinstown | $70,000 | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perkinstown | $30,000 | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Flood | Perkinstown | $23,000 | Brush Creek flooded and caused a culvert along Forest Road 1417 to wash out and the road to collapse. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perkinstown | $3,000 | Trees were blown down across various parts of Taylor County. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perkinstown | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees along County Road M west of the intersection with Highway 13. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perkinstown | $1,000 | Large tree branches were blown down south of Perkinstown. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perkinstown | $1,000 | Law enforcement officials reported downed trees along County Road M and Richter Road. |
| September 2002 | Hail | Perkinstown | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Perkinstown | - | Quarter sized hail fell east of Perkinstown. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Perkinstown | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Perkinstown | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perkinstown | - | 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 Perkinstown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7169071 | 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 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.





