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Rockbridge, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rockbridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 53581. It stands on West Branch Pine River. The Survey maps it on the Rockbridge quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Rockbridge within Richland County

On record in Rockbridge

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Rockbridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 155 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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 burning27
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
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
30 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFRED2
19 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFRED1
11 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAYBINE
24 August 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesKABOTA
9 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rockbridge: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Mcglynn QuarryStoneUnknown
Johnson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joyce QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Snyder QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockbridge in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 flash flood. 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
June 1996Flash FloodRockbridge$250,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Hub City1.6 miles12
Buck Creek1.9 miles12
Woodstock3.7 miles12
Henrietta (historical)4.5 miles11
Gillingham4.6 miles12
Corwin (historical)5.8 miles11
Bloom City6.2 miles12
Bunker Hill6.5 miles12

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 RockbridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7354974The 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 1578617. 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.