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Price, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Garfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 54741. It stands on Solum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Price quadrangle.

Price within Jackson County

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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Price between 1992 and 2018, burning about 102 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning36
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBRANCH ROAD
6 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

19 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Price in 19 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindPrice$30,000Trees were blown down in the Town of Cleveland. Some of the downed trees landed on vehicles.
April 2026HailPrice$17,000The public reported golf ball sized hail 2 miles east of Price.
April 2026HailPrice$15,000A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail roughly 2 miles south-southeast of Price.
August 2019HailPrice$15,000Golf ball sized hail fell across the far northern sections of Jackson County east of Price.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindPrice$2,000A tree was uprooted and blown down across a power line east of Price.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindPrice$2,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPrice$1,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindPrice$1,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPrice$500no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindPrice$250no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPrice$250no account filed
May 2024HailPrice-The public reported ping pong ball sized hail in northwestern Jackson county.
June 2021HailPrice-Quarter sized hail was reported southwest of Price.
May 2017HailPrice-Quarter sized hail fell north of Northfield.
June 2017HailPrice-Walnut sized hail was reported in the far northern portion of Jackson County north of Alma Center.
June 2005HailPrice-no account filed
June 2004HailPrice-no account filed
June 2004HailPrice-no account filed
September 2002HailPrice-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Levis4.0 miles12
Requa4.8 miles12
Northfield8.8 miles13
North Branch9.7 miles13
York10.3 miles13
Alma Center12.5 miles13
Hixton13.7 miles13
Merrillan14.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1571927. 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.

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.