Pine Creek, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dodge town. It lies in ZIP code area 54625. The Survey maps it on the Dodge quadrangle. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Pine Creek within Trempealeau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1929 USGS Fountain City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1934 USGS Winona quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1937 USGS Winona quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Eau Claire quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Dodge quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Winona quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pine Creek between 2019 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
9 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	14
12 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trempealeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Pine Creek: 17 past producers, 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
C Carhart Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
F Klein Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
F Klein Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Marshland Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
R Kriesel Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
A Losinski Shale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bockenhauer Shale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Bork Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Darell Schultz Shale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
E Hermann Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Trempealeau County

Storms near this place

28 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Creek in 28 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 24 flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Creek	$5,000	Trees and power lines were blown down in Dodge.
August 2025	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Heavy rainfall during the middle of August allowed the Trempealeau River at Dodge to rise into flood stage during the evening hours on August 19th. The river then rose to a crest of 10.92 ft in minor flood stage before falling below flood stage during the morning hours on August 20th.
July 2024	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Significant rainfall during the middle of July pushed the Trempealeau River at Dodge into flood stage on July 16th. The river stage crested during the early morning on July 17th in minor flood stage at 10.99 ft.
October 2023	Heavy Rain	Pine Creek	-	A volunteer observer reported 5.20 inches of rainfall near the Town of Trempealeau.
March 2022	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Up to 1.5 inches of rain fell across the area in early March. With the ground still frozen, the resulting runoff pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested over a half foot above the flood stage at 11.09 feet on the 9th.
March 2019	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from rain and melting snow, along with ice jams, pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested over four feet above the flood stage at 13.44 feet on March 16th. This was a crest of record for this site. The flooding prompted some residents to evacuate.
April 2019	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from rain and snowmelt pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested around a foot and a half above the flood stage at 10.62 feet on April 20th.
March 2018	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from snowmelt pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested around a half foot above the flood stage at 9.63 feet.
September 2018	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested around a foot and a half above the flood stage at 10.65 feet on September 8th.
May 2017	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested almost three feet above the flood stage at 11.98 feet.
April 2017	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested less than a quarter of an inch above the flood stage at 9.16 feet.
June 2017	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested less than a half foot above the flood stage at 9.23 feet.
April 2017	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge for the second time in less than a week. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 9.82 feet.
June 2017	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from several rain events pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested less than a half foot above the flood stage at 9.14 feet.
July 2017	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested over three feet above the flood stage at 12.19 feet.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Pine Creek	-	Near Dodge, 6 inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested just over the flood stage at 9.23 feet.
August 2016	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested over a foot above the flood stage at 10.37 feet.
August 2016	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested two and a half feet above the flood stage at 11.55 feet.
April 2014	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from snow melt along with the ice breaking up, caused the Trempealeau River in Dodge to go out of its banks. The river crested less than a half foot above the flood stage at 9.33 feet.
June 2014	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested over a half foot above the flood stage at 9.64 feet.
June 2013	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks in Dodge. The river crested almost a foot over flood stage at 9.96 feet.
April 2013	Flood	Pine Creek	-	The combination of melting snow and several rounds of rain caused the Trempealeau River in Dodge to go above flood stage three times between April 1st and April 19th. The first round of flooding occurred on the 1st and 2nd with a crest of 9.21 feet on the 1st. The second round of flooding occurred between the 5th and 14th with a crest of 10.74 feet on the 11th. The final round of flooding occurred between the 16th and 19th with a crest of 9.95 feet on the 17th. Flood stage at Dodge is 9 feet.
May 2013	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Trempealeau River out of its banks at Dodge. The river crested over a foot above the flood stage at 10.34 feet.
March 2011	Flood	Pine Creek	-	The combination of rainfall and melting snow pushed the Trempealeau River at Dodge out of its banks. The river exceeded the flood stage from the 21st into the 27th. The river crested almost four feet over the flood stage at 12.75 feet.
August 2010	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Locally heavy rains pushed the Trempealeau River at Dodge out of its banks from August 15th through the 18th. The river exceeded the flood stage by over two feet, cresting at 11.08 feet.
September 2010	Flood	Pine Creek	-	Locally heavy rains pushed the Trempealeau River at Dodge out of its banks from September 23rd through the 30th. The river exceeded the flood stage by almost four feet, cresting at 12.75 feet. This crest established a new flood of record.
July 2015	Hail	Pine Creek	-	no account filed

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dodge	1.3 miles	16
West Prairie	4.9 miles	18
Pine Creek (historical)	4.9 miles	18
Tamarack	5.0 miles	11
Wrights Corners	5.6 miles	11
Cortland (historical)	5.9 miles	16
Centerville	6.0 miles	11
Arcadia	8.3 miles	11

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 Pine Creek	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195096	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 1571425. 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.