Roche a Cri, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Preston town. It lies in ZIP code area 53934. It stands on Dead Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roche A Cri quadrangle. It stands 951 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Roche a Cri 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 Roche A Cri quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Wisconsin Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

230 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Roche a Cri (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,706 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 29 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	65
Equipment and vehicle use	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41
Arson/incendiarism	29
Smoking	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Other causes	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Fireworks	4
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
6 September 2020	Natural	6.1 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	DUSTY
30 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 1996	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
Cottonville	1.5 miles	7
Arkdale	3.4 miles	8
Big Flats	4.2 miles	7
Friendship	5.8 miles	10
Adams	6.8 miles	10
Monroe Center	6.9 miles	8
Fordham (historical)	7.0 miles	11
Dellwood	7.4 miles	10

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 Roche a Cri (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7353842	The 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 1837632. 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.