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Maiden Rock, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Maiden Rock town. It lies in ZIP code area 54750. It stands on Rush River. The Survey maps it on the Maiden Rock quadrangle. 115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,135 feet above sea level.

Maiden Rock within Pierce County

Population over time

2 figures

Maiden Rock fell from 119 to 115 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
2010119
2020115-4 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Maiden Rock between 1992 and 2019, burning about 33 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
31 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources0LF1811
3 May 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2018Debris and open burning13 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources0LF1811
24 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 1998Debris and open burning9.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2010Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Maiden Rock: 7 occurrences, 6 past producers, 5 producers, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand. 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
Goodhue County Sand Deposit No 2SilicaOccurrence
Maiden Rock MineSand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac SandProducer1920
Kassac QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Maiden Rock Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Maiden Rock Limestone Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Maiden Rock Limestone Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pine Creek Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Skunk Hollow Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Stockholm QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Frontenac MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maiden Rock in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
August 2009Flash FloodMaiden Rock$100,000The local law enforcement officials received reports of a few roads closed by high water across the southern part of Pierce county, north of Maiden Rock. Also, a mud slide was reported along Highway A, between State Road 35 and U.S. Highway 10.
July 2017Flash FloodMaiden Rock-Water and debris was on Highway 35, and County Road A near Maiden Rock.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMaiden Rock-A large tree was blown down which knocked down a power line.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMaiden Rock-Multiple large trees were blown down.
June 2010Flash FloodMaiden Rock-A mud slide occurred north of Maiden Rock on County Road A, and 385th Street due to flash flooding.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMaiden Rock-Large branches wee downed onto telephone lines.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMaiden Rock-Few trees down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMaiden Rock-Large branches felled and blocking road. Estimated windspeed.
June 2009HailMaiden Rock-no account filed
September 2007HailMaiden Rock-no account filed
June 2007HailMaiden Rock-no account filed
August 2000HailMaiden Rock-no account filed
July 1995HailMaiden Rock-no account filed
July 1995HailMaiden Rock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Warrentown2.8 miles15
Oakridge4.9 miles16
Salem5.0 miles15
Lund5.7 miles13
Ono7.1 miles15
Bay City7.7 miles16
Nerike7.7 miles13
Plum City7.8 miles13

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 Maiden RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671407The 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 1568900. 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.