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Rising Sun, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Utica town. It lies in ZIP code area 54628. It lies near Lennon Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Rising Sun quadrangle. It stands 1,299 feet above sea level.

Rising Sun within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 10 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Rising Sun between 1992 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. None 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 burning19
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
12 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20143
11 July 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNO TILL FIRE
12 May 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBOMA FIRE
5 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCRAM RX BURN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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 Rising Sun: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Cain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fairview QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Roaring Forty QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rising Sun in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2003: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2002Thunderstorm WindRising Sun$1,250no account filed
July 2003HailRising Sun-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Fairview3.5 miles10
Towerville3.7 miles10
Reed5.2 miles18
Johnstown6.4 miles10
Pine Knob6.5 miles10
Mount Sterling7.3 miles10
Yankeetown8.9 miles10
Ferryville8.9 miles18

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 Rising SunAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7336161The 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 1572342. 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.