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Lone Rock, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Orange town. It lies in ZIP code area 53950. The Survey maps it on the New Lisbon North quadrangle. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Lone Rock within Juneau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Lone Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 416 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning26
Equipment and vehicle use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
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
29 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2001Other causesunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesVOLK FIRE
26 August 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesASPEN FIRE
12 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juneau 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
Orange Mill3.1 miles12
Camp Douglas3.4 miles13
New Lisbon5.2 miles12
Hustler5.4 miles13
Cutler5.8 miles14
Cloverdale5.9 miles14
Kelly6.3 miles12
Necedah9.3 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 Lone RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6671362The 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 1577707. 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.