Rocky Run, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Carson town. It lies in ZIP code area 54481. The Survey maps it on the Rocky Run quadrangle. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.

Rocky Run within Portage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Stevens Point quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Rocky Run quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wausau quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Run between 1992 and 2019, burning about 258 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use	55
Debris and open burning	26
Railroad operations and maintenance	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	2
Other causes	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SPARK FIRE
12 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mill Creek Community	2.0 miles	7
Casimir	2.5 miles	9
Stevens Point	3.8 miles	9
Park Ridge	5.3 miles	9
Whiting	5.6 miles	7
Junction City	7.5 miles	5
Jordan	7.5 miles	9
Meehan	7.5 miles	7

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 Rocky Run	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7356006	The 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 1572507. 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.