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.
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
Honey Creek Swiss Rural Historic Districtlisted 1990
Tripp Memorial Library and Halllisted 1981
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 22 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.
- 1895 USGS Baraboo quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1908 USGS Baraboo quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Baraboo quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Baraboo SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Sauk City quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
121 since 1992Regional 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 use | 43 |
| Debris and open burning | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | TRUSSEL SMOKE |
| 6 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | FITZGERALD YARD |
| 5 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SNUFFYS |
| 27 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BREUNIG RD |
| 26 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.9 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | MAGAZINE UNIT |
| 24 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | MATCH BAG |
| 24 July 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.8 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matousek Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Pulvermacher Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Prairie Du Sac | $75,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie Du Sac | $15,000 | Numerous trees down 18 to 24 inches in diameter. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Prairie Du Sac | $10,000 | Many streets on the west side of Sauk Prairie flooded and closed. Some homes surrounded by floodwaters and many basements flooded. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie Du Sac | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie Du Sac | $3,000 | Some tree damage in Prairie Du Sac including a large tree down at the intersection of Grand Ave. and 6th St. |
| June 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Prairie Du Sac | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie Du Sac | - | Trees down. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Prairie Du Sac | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Prairie Du Sac | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Prairie Du Sac | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Prairie Du Sac | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Prairie Du Sac | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Prairie Du Sac | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sauk City | 1.1 miles | 22 | |
| Loddes Mill | 4.4 miles | 19 | |
| Moon Valley | 6.4 miles | 22 | |
| Bluffview | 6.4 miles | 19 | |
| Merrimac | 8.0 miles | 22 | |
| Maple Bluff Estates | 8.4 miles | 24 | |
| Witwen | 8.7 miles | 19 | |
| Denzer | 9.5 miles | 19 |
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 Sac | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1415586 | 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 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.







