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Rockland, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rockland Village. It lies in ZIP code area 54653. It stands on Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bangor quadrangle. 765 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 755 feet above sea level.

Rockland within La Crosse County

Population over time

2 figures

Rockland grew from 594 to 765 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
2010594
2020765+171 (+29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Rockland between 2018 and 2020, burning about 18 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources81420
8 April 2019Debris and open burning10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources40819
24 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources42418
19 March 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources180038
17 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources200039
8 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources110820

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Crosse 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 Rockland: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Bangor QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Klos QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Linton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pierce QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in La Crosse County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockland in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 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
September 2016Flash FloodRockland$913,000Flood waters from Fleming Creek caused State Highway 108 to be closed near Mindoro.|Water covered low spots in several other locations across the northeast part of La Crosse County. Some of the impacted roads included County Highways C, DE and E. Some minor mudslides also occurred with County Highway OA reduced to one lane. Sixteen homes were damaged by the flooding. Bangor declared a local state of emergency due to flooding along Dutch Creek.
May 2011Tornado (EF1)Rockland$5,000For the short time this tornado was in La Crosse County, it produced mainly tree and some minor building damage. The tornado tracked from just southwest of Rockland, toward the rest stop on the eastbound side of Interstate 90 before crossing into Monroe County.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRockland$2,000Trees were blown down near Rockland.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindRockland$800Large trees were blown down over road.
June 2007HailRockland-Golf ball sized hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in La Crosse 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
Bangor3.9 miles15
Burns4.0 miles15
Middle Ridge7.4 miles13
West Salem8.6 miles17
Newberg Corners9.4 miles13
Saint Joseph10.6 miles16
Barre Mills11.3 miles16
Mindoro12.5 miles13

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 RocklandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2519617The 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 1572484. 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.