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Rockaway Beach, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Oshkosh town. It lies in ZIP code area 54901. The Survey maps it on the Oshkosh quadrangle.

Rockaway Beach within Winnebago County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Rockaway Beach between 1994 and 2020, burning about 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources205308
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources205595
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184525
26 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources185073
12 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184656
25 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources204206
4 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY H #1
30 May 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winnebago 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 Rockaway Beach: 4 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Grundy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Last PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Newell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Vulcan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Eureka QuarryStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Winnebago 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
Keenville1.3 miles9
Winnebago2.2 miles9
Oshkosh2.3 miles9
Fairview Beach2.7 miles9
Island Beach3.1 miles9
Stony Beach4.1 miles10
Sunset Point4.2 miles9
Melrose Park4.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1572477. 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.