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Rockville, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Schleswig town. It lies in ZIP code area 53042. The Survey maps it on the School Hill quadrangle. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Rockville within Manitowoc County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Rockville between 2018 and 2019, burning about 1 acre 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
5 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5056
7 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5122
14 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5123
21 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5115
15 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5111
30 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources4962

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manitowoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Rockville: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 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
Elkhart PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kiel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
L. Fries PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Neils PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schnelle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sheyboygan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Witt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zimmerman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Manitowoc County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockville in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
July 2020LightningRockville$400,000Lightning struck an apartment complex on Clay Street in Kiel during the early evening hours, causing a fire and extensive structural damage.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindRockville$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Manitowoc 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
Kiel2.1 miles10
Millhome2.6 miles9
Louis Corners2.6 miles9
Steinthal4.3 miles10
School Hill5.9 miles9
Saint Nazianz7.3 miles10
Spring Valley8.5 miles9
Meeme8.8 miles9

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 RockvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7355623The 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 1572490. 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.