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Prescott, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Prescott City. It lies in ZIP code area 54021. The Survey maps it on the Hastings quadrangle. 4,333 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Prescott within Pierce County

On record in Prescott

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

Prescott grew from 4,258 to 4,333 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
20104,258
20204,333+75 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Prescott in 2020, burning under an 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/undetermined1

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
24 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources200021

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Prescott: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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
Christenson QuarryStoneUnknown
Stirratt Ave Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Ahlgren Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Barkley Coulee Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Prescott Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Willow Drive Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prescott in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPrescott-Trees and power lines reported down in Prescott.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindPrescott-Trees and power lines downed just east of Prescott.
August 2024Tornado (EF0)Prescott-A tornado developed at the southern edge of Bellwood Oaks Golf Course, in Dakota County. It moved northeast and tracked across a sliver of northern Goodhue County before crossing the Mississippi River into Wisconsin, about 5 miles southeast of Prescott. Several dozen trees were broken or uprooted and a trailer was flipped.
May 2022HailPrescott-There was a social media picture of quarter size hail.
June 2020Flash FloodPrescott-There were numerous road closures, and culverts overwhelmed by flood waters across portions of Pierce County. Some specific closures included Highway 10 west of Ellsworth, County Road O along the Trimbelle River, and the towns of Martell and El Paso were severely flooded from the Rush River. In addition, some crops were washed out around Spring Valley.
July 2020Tornado (EF0)Prescott-This is the continuation of the tornado that moved across southern Washington County, and into Wisconsin. The path of the tornado continued to move east-northeast before dissipating 1.7 miles southwest of River Falls, Wisconsin. Trees were uprooted along the continuous path which was 6.2 miles long.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPrescott-The public reported several large trees, up to 10-12 inches in diameter, blown down east of Prescott.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPrescott-Multiple trees were blown down east of Prescott.
July 2014Tornado (EF0)Prescott-An EF0 tornado continued to move eastward from Washington County, into Pierce County, Wisconsin, where most of the damage was large tree limbs blown down from mature hardwood trees.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindPrescott-Several power lines were blown down near the intersection of Linn and St. Croix Street in Prescott, Wisconsin.
August 2010Flash FloodPrescott-Several cars had stalled due to excessive water on roadways in Prescott, Wisconsin.
August 2009Heavy RainPrescott-A trained spotter reported several inches of rainfall over a short period of time around Prescott, Wisconsin.
August 2009Heavy RainPrescott-A trained spotter reported two inches of rain in less than one hour.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPrescott-Residential home windows blown out. Power line down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPrescott-A tree was downed across a road.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPrescott-A tree was downed onto a boat.
October 2004Thunderstorm WindPrescott-Trees were downed from Prescott to River Falls.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPrescott-Tree toppled onto truck. Estimated windspeed.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPrescott-Large trees and power lines down.
August 2013HailPrescott-no account filed
June 2012HailPrescott-no account filed
July 2009HailPrescott-no account filed
April 2002HailPrescott-no account filed
May 2001HailPrescott-no account filed
July 1994HailPrescott-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Smith Landing7.2 miles15
Diamond Bluff11.4 miles15
Trimbelle11.8 miles14
River Falls12.2 miles12
Moeville15.1 miles14
Ottman Corners15.4 miles14
Beldenville15.7 miles12
Trenton16.1 miles15

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 PrescottAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1120380The 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 1571918. 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.