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.
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
- Van Hise RockNational Historic Landmark · listed 1997
Population over time
2 figuresRock 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 362 | |
| 2020 | 327 | -35 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Denzer quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS North Freedom quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS North Freedom NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Rock Springs quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
136 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 53 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 August 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | ABLEMAN ROAD FIRE |
| 1 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 July 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 July 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foley Brothers Rock Springs Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Alfred Boyles Flagstone Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Bloss Stone Company Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Illinois Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1904, 1916 | |
| Illinois Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1904 | |
| Sauk Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Sauk Mine | Iron | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Freedom | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| The Courtyards | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| LaRue | 4.2 miles | 19 | |
| Baders Villa Estates | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| Reedsburg | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Dellwood | 6.4 miles | 17 | |
| Loganville | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| West Baraboo | 8.0 miles | 19 |
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 Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2440482 | 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 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.






