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Castle Rock, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Castle Rock town. It lies in ZIP code area 53569. It lies near Crow Valley. The Survey maps it on the Castle Rock quadrangle.

Castle Rock within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Castle Rock between 1993 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
25 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDUDLEY'S FIRE
30 April 2020Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCASTLE ROCK
30 April 2018Recreation and ceremony14 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBOWERS
27 April 2003Debris and open burning3.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 1993Debris and open burning1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Castle Rock: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Updike QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castle Rock in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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
June 2009Flash FloodCastle Rock$10,000Water was reported covering Collins Road and County Road Q near Castle Rock.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCastle Rock$5,000A tree was blown down onto a house near Castle Rock.
July 2016Flash FloodCastle Rock-Locally heavy rains pushed the Fennimore Fork out of its banks sending water over Witek Road northeast of Fennimore.
June 2011HailCastle Rock-Along with the hail, wind gusts were estimated to be around 50 mph.
June 2011HailCastle Rock-no account filed
June 2011HailCastle Rock-no account filed
June 2011HailCastle Rock-no account filed
June 1998HailCastle Rock-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindCastle Rock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Preston5.1 miles15
Homer5.2 miles10
Hickory Grove5.4 miles10
Centerville5.9 miles10
Lancaster Junction6.5 miles15
Montfort7.4 miles13
Fennimore7.9 miles15
Annaton9.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1562788. 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.