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Rockfield, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Germantown Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53076. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Rockfield within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

24 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Rockfield between 2013 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
3 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801183
19 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801269
19 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801111
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000661
29 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800799
15 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800727
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018057
22 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019064

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Rockfield: 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Hubertos PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Johann Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Merget Pit Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Richfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockfield in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2026: 3 hail. 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
April 2026HailRockfield-Public report of 1 inch diameter hail in Germantown.
September 2021HailRockfield-no account filed
July 2019HailRockfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Dheinsville1.0 miles15
Germantown2.2 miles20
Goldenthal2.4 miles20
Kirchhayn3.0 miles15
Meeker3.5 miles20
Richfield3.6 miles15
Willow Creek3.9 miles20
Victory Center4.2 miles20

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 RockfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7355218The 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 1572481. 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.