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Prentice, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Prentice Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54556. The Survey maps it on the Prentice quadrangle. 563 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,539 feet above sea level.

Prentice within Price County

On record in Prentice

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

Population over time

2 figures

Prentice fell from 660 to 563 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
2010660
2020563-97 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Prentice between 1992 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 use21
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Natural1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
29 September 2012Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY A
17 September 1992Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Prentice: 10 occurrences, 6 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc. 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
Prentice East ProspectZincProspect
Douglas Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Douglas Creek Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Douglas Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hay Creek Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hay Creek Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hay Creek Gravel Deposit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hay Creek Gravel Deposit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hay Creek Gravel Pit # 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hay Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Price County

Storms near this place

39 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prentice in 39 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 26 hail, 12 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Prentice$1,000A weak tornado tracked for just over a mile around U.S. Highway 8 to the west of Prentice. The damage was primarily to trees, with a few 6-12 inch diameter pine trees snapped and blown in a convergent damage pattern. A metal barn also had some minor damage, mainly to eaves and siding. [DI 1 (SBO), DOD 1, EXP-UB, Est Gust 70 mph].
July 2019Thunderstorm WindPrentice-Small branches and leaves were stripped off trees.
April 2017HailPrentice-Hailstones up to the size of quarters covered the ground in less than 2 minutes.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPrentice-Multiple trees were blown down. The largest trees were 8 to 10 inches in diameter.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPrentice-Several trees were blown down along a half mile stretch of US Highway 8.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPrentice-An 8 diameter pine tree fell on a power line. Power outages were reported in the Prentice area.
September 2014HailPrentice-There was also very heavy rain and strong winds.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindPrentice-The wind blew down two 10-inch diameter trees across Highway 8.
May 2010HailPrentice-Strong winds were also reported in addition to the hail.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindPrentice-Trees 5 to 6 inches in diameter were blown down.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindPrentice-A 32 inch diameter tree was blown down.
July 2006HailPrentice-The hail ranged in size from 1 to 1 3/4 inches. The hail covered the ground.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPrentice-Trees were blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindPrentice-Large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindPrentice-Trees were blown down. Wind speed is estimated.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPrentice-Trees and power lines were blown down. A semi-trailer was overturned.
August 2018HailPrentice-no account filed
August 2018HailPrentice-no account filed
June 2017HailPrentice-no account filed
May 2012HailPrentice-no account filed
April 2009HailPrentice-no account filed
April 2009HailPrentice-no account filed
April 2009HailPrentice-no account filed
October 2007HailPrentice-no account filed
September 2002HailPrentice-no account filed
April 2002HailPrentice-no account filed
April 2002HailPrentice-no account filed
April 2002HailPrentice-no account filed
April 2002HailPrentice-no account filed
April 2002HailPrentice-no account filed
April 2002HailPrentice-no account filed
April 2002HailPrentice-no account filed
May 1998HailPrentice-no account filed
May 1998HailPrentice-no account filed
May 1998HailPrentice-no account filed
May 1998HailPrentice-no account filed
May 1998HailPrentice-no account filed
August 1997HailPrentice-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindPrentice-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Price 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
Worcester4.0 miles10
Pennington5.7 miles10
Ogema7.1 miles9
Cranberry Lake7.3 miles10
Brantwood9.2 miles8
Dover10.1 miles11
Spirit11.1 miles9
Phillips12.0 miles10

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 PrenticeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2331014The 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 1571914. 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.