BlockRogersville, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Lamartine town. It lies in ZIP code area 54974. The Survey maps it on the Waupun North quadrangle. It stands 909 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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 Waupun quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Waupun NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Fond Du Lac quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Waupun North quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
10,871 words on this townshipThe History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, published 1880; The History of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, Containing ... War Record, Biographical Sketches ... History of Wisconsin ... Etc, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Lamartine Town covers the township.
Read the chapter on Lamartine Town - 10,871 words.
Fires near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Rogersville between 1997 and 2018, burning about 127 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Leopold Wetland Management District | NKING CHASE |
| 5 June 1997 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | BRADLEY2 |
| 4 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Leopold Wetland Management District | SCHOENBERG |
| 21 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | BRADLEY RD |
| 1 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 51181 |
| 3 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Leopold Wetland Management District | MANTHEYW |
| 24 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 3.8 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | GATOR |
| 2 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 acres | Leopold Wetland Management District | TRENTON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rogersville in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rogersville | $2,000 | Multiple reports of branches and trees down in the Township of Springvale. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ladoga | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Lamartine | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Woodhull | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Rosendale | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Eldorado | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Oakfield | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Oak Center | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| West Rosendale | 7.1 miles | 9 |
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 Rogersville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7359373 | 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 1572540. 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.
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.