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.
Population over time
2 figuresStar 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 561 | |
| 2020 | 678 | +117 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1948 USGS New Richmond quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS New Richmond quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS New Richmond North quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 1998Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 161 |
| 12 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 94 |
| 10 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 6.8 acres | St. Croix Wetland Management District | CTY RD H |
| 30 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 79 |
| 26 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 79 |
| 23 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 73 |
| 20 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 acres | St. Croix Wetland Management District | FLATERS |
| 25 November 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | St. Croix Wetland Management District | STAR PRAIR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatfield Lake Dolomite Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Apple River Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Apple River Gravel Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Apple River Sand Deposit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Church Road Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Dale Swenson Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Fred Wittstock Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Johannesburg Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| K. Almos & H. Karlstad Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Merlin Frank Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Star Prairie | $500,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Star 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Star Prairie | - | Report of two foot diameter trees uprooted. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Star Prairie | - | Report of hail at least the size of a quarter, and it was getting bigger as the report was being called in. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Star Prairie | - | A few trees and power lines were blown down around Star Prairie. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Star Prairie | - | Several trees and power lines were blown down in Star Prairie. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Star 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Star Prairie | - | Tree toppled. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Star Prairie | - | Siding blown off shed and wrapped around tree trunk. Several trees toppled. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Star 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Star Prairie | - | Power lines and numerous 12 inch branches down. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Star Prairie | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Star Prairie | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Star Prairie | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Star Prairie | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Star Prairie | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Star Prairie | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Star Prairie | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Star Prairie | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Star Prairie | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Star Prairie | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huntington | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Wall Street Village | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Stanton | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Johannesburg | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| New Richmond | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Riverside | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Jewett | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Deer Park | 7.7 miles | 12 |
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 Prairie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1841136 | 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 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.








