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Lone Rock, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lone Rock Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53556. The Survey maps it on the Lone Rock quadrangle. 829 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

Lone Rock within Richland County

Population over time

2 figures

Lone Rock fell from 888 to 829 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
2010888
2020829-59 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Lone Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,737 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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 burning45
Railroad operations and maintenance29
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Fireworks2
Other causes2
Smoking1

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
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use36 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAY/133 FIRE
13 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMERCER ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lone Rock: 3 past producers. 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
Haney QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Larson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tubbs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lone Rock in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2013Flash FloodLone Rock$291,000Heavy rain produced flash flooding across the southwest half of Richland County. Numerous streams were forced out of their banks with water reported over County Highway JJ between Gotham and Lone Rock, State Highway 56 near Gillingham and the intersection of County Highways O and OO near Richland Center. Mud slides closed County Highway O northwest of Gotham. State Highway 60 between Gotham and the Crawford County line southwest of Westport was closed by a mudslide with other damage reducing the road to one lane at times.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLone Rock$80,000Numerous trees and powerlines were blown down in Lone Rock. Seven homes sustained roof damage from the high winds.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLone Rock$15,000Numerous trees were blown down in Lone Rock damaging some cars and homes.
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Lone Rock$10,000A small, short-lived tornado produced roof damage and blew down two large trees onto a house in Lone Rock. Other trees were snapped off about 20 feet above the ground.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLone Rock$250Trees were blown down near the intersection of U.S. Highway 14 and State Highway 130.
July 2015HailLone Rock-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLone Rock-no account filed
September 1995HailLone Rock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Gotham5.7 miles10
Sextonville8.2 miles12
Bear Valley8.6 miles11
Twin Bluffs8.7 miles12
Aubrey10.4 miles12
Keyesville10.8 miles11
Ithaca11.7 miles12
Orion12.3 miles10

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 Q2000945The 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 1568511. 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.