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Rosewood, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Dover town. It lies in ZIP code area 53139. The Survey maps it on the Rochester quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Rosewood within Racine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

In the county-history sources

7,136 words on this township

The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Dover Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Dover Town - 7,136 words.

Fires near this place

19 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Rosewood between 2010 and 2020, burning about 92 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
10 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources293
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources97
30 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources667
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources81
28 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources91
2 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use80 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources41
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources306

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Racine County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Rosewood: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Pit Number 3Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Burlington Pit Yard 12Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dons PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ed Prott PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kenosha County Hwy Dept Wilmot PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Krueger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Racine 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
Eagle Lake Manor2.4 miles19
Eagle Lake Terrace2.5 miles19
Eagle Lake3.0 miles19
Kansasville3.1 miles18
Lorimar Estates3.3 miles19
Cedar Park3.4 miles19
Browns Lake3.5 miles19
Hickory Haven4.8 miles18

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 RosewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7368773The 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 1572615. 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.