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Star Prairie, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Star Prairie Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54026. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Richmond North quadrangle. 678 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Star Prairie within St. Croix County

Population over time

2 figures

Star Prairie grew from 561 to 678 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
2010561
2020678+117 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Star Prairie between 1998 and 2020, burning about 55 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 burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
13 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources161
12 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources94
10 May 2019Debris and open burning6.8 acresSt. Croix Wetland Management DistrictCTY RD H
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources79
26 April 2020Recreation and ceremony10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources79
23 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources73
20 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresSt. Croix Wetland Management DistrictFLATERS
25 November 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSt. Croix Wetland Management DistrictSTAR PRAIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Croix County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Star Prairie: 8 past producers, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Hatfield Lake Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Apple River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Apple River Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Apple River Sand Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Church Road Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dale Swenson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fred Wittstock Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johannesburg Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
K. Almos & H. Karlstad Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Merlin Frank Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Croix County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Star Prairie in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 hail, 9 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindStar Prairie$500,000no account filed
June 2025HailStar Prairie-Several reports of hail up to 1.75 inches in diameter northwest of the New Richmond Regional Airport along County Highway CC and County Road C.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindStar Prairie-Report of two foot diameter trees uprooted.
July 2023HailStar Prairie-Report of hail at least the size of a quarter, and it was getting bigger as the report was being called in.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindStar Prairie-A few trees and power lines were blown down around Star Prairie.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindStar Prairie-Several trees and power lines were blown down in Star Prairie.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindStar Prairie-Two large trees and a power pole were blown down in Star Prairie Township less than a mile northeast of the Village of Somerset.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindStar Prairie-Tree toppled.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindStar Prairie-Siding blown off shed and wrapped around tree trunk. Several trees toppled.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindStar Prairie-Hundreds of trees down. Several dozen trees down 4 SE Deer Park was the last severe weather to occur from this supercell. It started in Minnesota (8 SW Cambridge, Isanti County) and produced severe weather along a 60 mile path. One tornado, two funnel clouds, large hail and damaging wind were the result.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindStar Prairie-Power lines and numerous 12 inch branches down.
June 2025HailStar Prairie-no account filed
June 2013HailStar Prairie-no account filed
May 2009HailStar Prairie-no account filed
August 2009HailStar Prairie-no account filed
May 2008HailStar Prairie-no account filed
May 2008HailStar Prairie-no account filed
June 2002HailStar Prairie-no account filed
May 2002HailStar Prairie-no account filed
June 1995HailStar Prairie-no account filed
June 1995HailStar Prairie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Croix 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
Huntington1.5 miles14
Wall Street Village2.1 miles14
Stanton3.8 miles12
Johannesburg4.0 miles14
New Richmond5.1 miles14
Riverside5.1 miles14
Jewett7.4 miles12
Deer Park7.7 miles12

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 Star PrairieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1841136The 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 1581735. 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.