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Rock Springs, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Excelsior town. It lies in ZIP code area 53961. It stands on Narrows Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rock Springs quadrangle. 327 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.

Rock Springs within Sauk County

On record in Rock Springs

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Rock Springs fell from 362 to 327 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
2010362
2020327-35 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Rock Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning53
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesABLEMAN ROAD FIRE
1 August 2001Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Rock Springs: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Flagstone, 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
Foley Brothers Rock Springs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Alfred Boyles Flagstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Bloss Stone Company QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Illinois MineIronPast Producer1904, 1916
Illinois MineIronPast Producer1904
Sauk MineIronPast Producer
Sauk MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sauk 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
North Freedom3.5 miles19
The Courtyards3.9 miles16
LaRue4.2 miles19
Baders Villa Estates4.8 miles16
Reedsburg5.2 miles11
Dellwood6.4 miles17
Loganville7.2 miles11
West Baraboo8.0 miles19

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 Rock SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2440482The 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 1572475. 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.