Prairie Farm, Wisconsin
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Prairie Farm town. It lies in ZIP code area 54762. It stands on Turtle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ridgeland quadrangle. 494 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPrairie Farm grew from 473 to 494 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 473 | |
| 2020 | 494 | +21 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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.
- 1949 USGS Ridgeland quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Ridgeland quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Rice Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Ridgeland quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Bloomer quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Farm between 2002 and 2020, burning about 20 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 burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 6620 |
| 5 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 552019 |
| 26 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 November 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 37238 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Prairie Farm: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alden Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Amundson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Edward Kraemer and Sons Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hay River Gravel Deposit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Hay River Gravel Pit #5 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hay River Gravel Pit #6 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lester Vergin Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Ridgeland Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prairie Farm in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Hail | Prairie Farm | - | A local sheriff official reported pea to nickel size hail covering the ground on County Road F. |
| August 2005 | Hail | Prairie Farm | - | Goflball sized hail broke windows and damaged siding. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie Farm | - | Trees were downed. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Prairie Farm | - | Small branches were also downed. |
| September 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Prairie Farm | - | A tornado touched down briefly, breaking several trees and destroying a shed. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie Farm | - | Barn damaged and trees blown down. Estimated windspeed. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Prairie Farm | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Prairie Farm | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Prairie Farm | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Prairie Farm | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Prairie Farm | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie Farm | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Prairie Farm | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie Farm | - | 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 Prairie Farm | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1945083 | 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 1571876. 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.





