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Strongs Prairie, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Strongs Prairie town. It lies in ZIP code area 54613. The Survey maps it on the Arkdale quadrangle.

Strongs Prairie within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

261 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Strongs Prairie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 225 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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 burning89
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Equipment and vehicle use41
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony17
Other causes8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks4
Natural1

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
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strongs Prairie in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 3 hail, 3 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindStrongs Prairie$75,000Public reported multiple fallen mature trees near and west of Arkdale along Wisconsin State Highway 21.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindStrongs Prairie$750no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindStrongs Prairie$500Tree down.
September 2017HailStrongs Prairie-Golf ball sized hail was reported near the south end of Petenwell Lake.
March 2000HailStrongs Prairie-no account filed
March 2000HailStrongs Prairie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Monroe Center4.0 miles8
Arkdale5.2 miles8
Dellwood5.7 miles10
Roche a Cri (historical)7.6 miles7
Cottonville9.0 miles7
Big Flats9.6 miles7
Friendship10.5 miles10
Adams11.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577843. 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.