New Rome, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rome town. It lies in ZIP code area 54457. It stands on Chester Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arkdale NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

New Rome within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Arkdale quadrangle1:48000
1967 USGS Arkdale NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of New Rome (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 475 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 23 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 burning	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49
Recreation and ceremony	28
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Arson/incendiarism	23
Smoking	9
Fireworks	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Other causes	4
Natural	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	22 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	COUNTY LINE FIRE
24 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 1998	Other causes	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	VEHICLE CRASH FIRE
18 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
New Rome	1.8 miles	8
Rome	3.2 miles	7
Big Flats	9.4 miles	7
Monroe Center	9.9 miles	8
Cottonville	13.0 miles	7
Roche a Cri (historical)	13.1 miles	7
Strongs Prairie	13.8 miles	8
Arkdale	14.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1837593. 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.