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Pigeon Falls, Wisconsin

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pigeon town. It lies in ZIP code area 54758. It lies near Tomter Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Pigeon Falls quadrangle. 381 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Pigeon Falls within Trempealeau County

Population over time

2 figures

Pigeon Falls fell from 411 to 381 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
2010411
2020381-30 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Pigeon Falls between 1994 and 2019, burning about 18 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
22 June 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5071928
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5051820
8 April 2019Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources481921
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources4301817
27 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources4271816
21 April 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trempealeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Pigeon Falls: 13 past producers, 11 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bautch Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Coral City Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
D Lyngen Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
L Mcrae Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lyle Bobo Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Pigeon Falls Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Wallace Johnson Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
A Schroeder Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Eimon Road Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Evenson Road Sandstone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Trempealeau County

Storms near this place

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pigeon Falls in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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 2011LightningPigeon Falls$1,200,000Lightning struck a one hundred thirty-nine year old church and caused a fire. Firefighters from 3 communities battled the fire for several hours. Major damage occurred to the roof and steeple but falling debris and water damaged the exposed interior. The building was later declared a total loss with estimates of $1.2 million to replace it.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindPigeon Falls$15,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPigeon Falls$2,000State Highway 121 was closed temporarily due to downed power lines.
June 2005HailPigeon Falls$1,500no account filed
October 2023Heavy RainPigeon Falls-An automated weather observation station reported 2.32 inches of rainfall near Pigeon Falls.
June 2023HailPigeon Falls-Broadcast media relayed public report of 1 to 1.75 inch hail covering the ground.
May 2017Flash FloodPigeon Falls-Runoff from heavy rain caused Pigeon Creek and Big Slough Creek to go out of their banks and flood portions of Pigeon Falls.
July 2015HailPigeon Falls-Up to quarter sized hail fell northeast of Pigeon Falls.
July 2015HailPigeon Falls-Quarter sized hail fell southeast of Pigeon Falls.
May 2013HailPigeon Falls-Quarter sized hail fell in Pigeon Falls.

Every storm recorded in Trempealeau 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
Hale3.9 miles12
Coral City4.8 miles12
Pleasantville5.3 miles12
Whitehall6.9 miles12
Blair9.2 miles13
Elk Creek10.0 miles12
Osseo10.1 miles12
Independence12.1 miles12

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 Pigeon FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2072949The 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 1571367. 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.