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Rolling Ground, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clayton town. It lies in ZIP code area 54655. The Survey maps it on the Mount Zion quadrangle. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Rolling Ground within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Rolling Ground between 1992 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning30
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Smoking1

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
24 August 2003Debris and open burning4.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFRANK ROAD FIRE
19 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 1992Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLEMLEY ROAD
8 April 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rolling Ground: 1 past producer, 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
Edward Kraemer and Sons, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Moran QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rolling Ground in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 4 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRolling Ground$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a shed with sheet metal moved about a quarter of a mile.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRolling Ground$1,000A tree was blown down onto a vehicle, breaking the wind shield.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindRolling Ground$500Three foot long tree branches were blown down in Rolling Ground.
August 2021HailRolling Ground-no account filed
June 2011HailRolling Ground-no account filed
June 2011HailRolling Ground-no account filed
May 2000HailRolling Ground-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Montgomeryville1.9 miles10
North Clayton3.9 miles10
Yankeetown4.6 miles10
Soldiers Grove4.9 miles10
Mount Zion5.0 miles10
Bell Center5.3 miles10
Gays Mills5.6 miles10
Petersburg6.5 miles10

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 Rolling GroundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7361176The 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 1572549. 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.