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Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Prairie du Sac Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53578. The Survey maps it on the Sauk City quadrangle. 4,420 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Prairie du Sac within Sauk County

On record in Prairie du Sac

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Prairie du Sac between 1992 and 2020, burning about 302 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use43
Debris and open burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRUSSEL SMOKE
6 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFITZGERALD YARD
5 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSNUFFYS
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBREUNIG RD
26 August 2020Debris and open burning1.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMAGAZINE UNIT
24 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMATCH BAG
24 July 2008Recreation and ceremony4.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Prairie du Sac: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Matousek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pulvermacher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sauk County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prairie du Sac in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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
June 1996Tornado (F1)Prairie Du Sac$75,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPrairie Du Sac$15,000Numerous trees down 18 to 24 inches in diameter.
March 2019FloodPrairie Du Sac$10,000Many streets on the west side of Sauk Prairie flooded and closed. Some homes surrounded by floodwaters and many basements flooded.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindPrairie Du Sac$10,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPrairie Du Sac$3,000Some tree damage in Prairie Du Sac including a large tree down at the intersection of Grand Ave. and 6th St.
June 1996Tornado (F0)Prairie Du Sac$1,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPrairie Du Sac-Trees down.
March 2022HailPrairie Du Sac-no account filed
April 2014HailPrairie Du Sac-no account filed
July 2006HailPrairie Du Sac-no account filed
August 2006HailPrairie Du Sac-no account filed
August 2006HailPrairie Du Sac-no account filed
April 2002HailPrairie Du Sac-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sauk 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
Sauk City1.1 miles22
Loddes Mill4.4 miles19
Moon Valley6.4 miles22
Bluffview6.4 miles19
Merrimac8.0 miles22
Maple Bluff Estates8.4 miles24
Witwen8.7 miles19
Denzer9.5 miles19

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 Prairie du SacAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1415586The 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 1571875. 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.