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Rogneys, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Franklin town. It lies in ZIP code area 54642. It lies near Cuffy Knob. The Survey maps it on the North Bend NE quadrangle. It stands 892 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rogneys within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Rogneys (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 18 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/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018017
13 April 1995Debris and open burning4.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2020Recreation and ceremony13 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202018
25 March 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803076
20 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMORGAN MARSH FIRE
28 February 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Franklin3.7 miles12
Melrose5.4 miles11
Disco5.4 miles13
North Bend7.7 miles13
Irving8.3 miles11
Taylor9.4 miles13
Charter Oak Mills (historical)11.0 miles13
Fall Hall Glen11.6 miles11

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 Rogneys (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7359424The 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 1845501. 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.