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Rib Mountain, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Rib Mountain Village. It stands on Rib Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Wausau West quadrangle. 6,061 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Rib Mountain within Marathon County

Population over time

2 figures

Rib Mountain grew from 5,651 to 6,061 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
20105,651
20206,061+410 (+7%)

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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Rib Mountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
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
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources678
11 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFAWN RD.
24 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources11260
17 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Rib Mountain: 9 occurrences, 8 past producers, 4 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Sunburst QuarryStoneUnknown
Wimmer QuarryStoneUnknown
Beilke QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rib Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stewart Avenue Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thurber Granite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wimmer PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Allenhofen Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Allenhofen Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marathon 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
Rothschild3.4 miles12
Schofield3.8 miles12
Mount View3.8 miles12
Wausau4.0 miles12
Wausau Junction4.0 miles12
Franklin Hill4.6 miles12
East Hill4.7 miles12
Evergreen5.2 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 Rib MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7322202The 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 1867665. 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.