BlockPurdy, Wisconsin
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Sterling town. It lies in ZIP code area 54632. It lies near Norwegian Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Newton quadrangle. It stands 699 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 11 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.
- 1926 USGS Stoddard quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Stoddard quadrangle1:62500
- 1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Newton quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
12,001 words on this townshipHistory of Vernon County, Wisconsin .., published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Sterling Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Among the settlers of 1849 were William S. Purdy and Alexandria Vance. The former was a native of Indiana and settled on section :i, town 11, range 6, where he remained till l&GO, at which time he sold out and moved into the village of Viroijua.
Passage source: History of Vernon County, Wisconsin .., published 1884.
The records of the first town meeting were lost or destroyed by some accident, and all that is known concerning it, is that Allen Donaldson was elected the first chairman, and also served as the first justice of the peace ; and that Lee Grant Sterling was elected town treasurer, but failing to qualify, the place was filled by William S. Purdy. Lewis Sterling was one of the two men who constituted the first side board.
Passage source: History of Vernon County, Wisconsin .., published 1884.
The Disciple Church of this town is one of the very earliest religious organizations in Vernon county. It was organized in 1849, by Rev. William Punly, at the house of Harvey Sterling, where meetings were held for several years, after which they were kejit uj) at the gr uit school house and still later at the Rush creek school house in Crawford county. The first members were : Harvey Sterling and wife, Lee Grant Sterling and Lewis Sterling. In 1883 a church edifice was erected at a cost of ยง1,200. At this date John Rutter, .Martin Hoste and Charles Fourt were elders, and Lee Grant Sterling and Eraslus Ames, deacons. The Church then numbered sixty-five. A Sabbath school was formed in connection with this Church in 18C2, with William S. Purdy as its fiist superintendent.
Passage source: History of Vernon County, Wisconsin .., published 1884.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Sterling Town - it names this place 10 more 10 times.
Fires near this place
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Purdy between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 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 |
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 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 162020 |
| 24 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1800038 |
| 28 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 262019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Purdy in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Purdy | $800 | Large trees were blown down. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Purdy | - | In Purdy, 7.10 inches of rain fell. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Prairie | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Bud | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Newton | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Retreat | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Romance | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Red Mound | 6.0 miles | 18 | |
| Fargo | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| Springville | 7.4 miles | 14 |
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 Purdy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7261013 | 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 1577780. 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.