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Sidney, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pine Valley town. It lies in ZIP code area 54456. The Survey maps it on the Columbia quadrangle. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.

Sidney within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Sidney between 1994 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
1 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesARNDT ROAD BALER FIRE
6 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGUN CLUB FIRE
16 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPOERTNER ROAD
4 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMOONLITE ROAD FIRE
13 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesOPELT AV.
1 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSNYDER LAKE FIRE
21 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources15

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sidney: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lidner PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Opelt Brothers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Own CrewsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

11 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sidney in 11 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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
December 2021Tornado (EF2)Sidney$200,000This EF2 tornado developed southwest of Sidney and moved northeast across a heavily wooded area of southwest Clark County. Thousands of trees were damaged and one home was destroyed near Five Mile Creek.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSidney$75,000Emergency management reported power poles and lines down on Highway 10.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindSidney$50,000A path of wind damage occurred across southwest Clark County from east of Humbird to near Globe. Most of the damage was uprooted or snapped trees but the roof was ripped off a metal pole shed and a wooded power pole was broken.
July 2011FloodSidney$10,000Locally heavy rain washed out at least two culverts in the vicinity of Snyder Lake County Park west of Neillsville.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSidney$6,000Trees were blown down on at least one vehicle west of Neillsville.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSidney$3,000Numerous trees were blown down across the southwest part of Clark County.
April 2026HailSidney-An amateur radio group reported quarter sized hail 3 miles west-northwest of Sidney.
April 2025HailSidney-The public reported quarter sized hail 3 miles southwest of Sidney. The report was relayed by local broadcast media.
April 2025HailSidney-The public reported half dollar sized hail about 2 miles southeast of Sidney.
May 2014HailSidney-Golf ball sized hail was reported west of Neillsville.
September 2010Heavy RainSidney-Rainfall amounted to 5.88 inches. A total of 4.39 inches was measured 2 miles north of Owen as well.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Neillsville2.3 miles11
Columbia5.0 miles11
Christie6.9 miles11
Globe7.1 miles12
Shortville7.6 miles12
Kurth (historical)7.7 miles11
Trow (historical)7.8 miles13
Granton9.7 miles11

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 SidneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7508914The 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 1574088. 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.