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Ridgetop, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Florence town. It lies in ZIP code area 54121. The Survey maps it on the Florence West quadrangle. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.

Ridgetop within Florence County

On record in Ridgetop

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Ridgetop between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Other causes2
Natural2

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
8 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUTTONS AND BOWS
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLIFT STATION
9 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFIRE CRACKER
27 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBRULE DAM ROAD
24 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSECOND CROSSING 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Ridgetop: 10 past producers, 8 occurrences, 5 producers, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Commonwealth GroupIronPast Producer1880, 1916
Commonwealth GroupIronPast Producer1880
Ernst MineIronPast Producer1849, 1914, 1929
Ernst MineIronPast Producer1912, 1914
Florence MineIronPast Producer1849, 1880, 1931
Florence MineIronPast Producer1880
Larson ExplorationIronProspect
Larson Exploration ProspectIronOccurrence1849, 1948
Blooms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Commonwealth Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Florence County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridgetop in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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
July 2010Flash FloodRidgetop$1,000Runoff from very heavy rainfall washed out secondary roads and culverts along Highway 70 near Florence.
May 2024HailRidgetop-Penny size hail fell near Commonwealth. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRidgetop-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines west of Florence.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRidgetop-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines west of Florence.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindRidgetop-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines southwest of Florence.
June 2011HailRidgetop-A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds and golf ball size hail which whitened the ground west of Florence.

Every storm recorded in Florence 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
Florence1.1 miles9
Commonwealth1.9 miles10
Tyran2.3 miles9
Hematite3.5 miles10
Spread Eagle7.7 miles10
Fern8.9 miles8
Pulp9.6 miles11
Aurora13.4 miles11

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 RidgetopAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7332785The 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 1577790. 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.