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Rosholt, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Alban town. It lies in ZIP code area 54473. The Survey maps it on the Rosholt quadrangle. 478 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.

Rosholt within Portage County

On record in Rosholt

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Rosholt fell from 506 to 478 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010506
2020478-28 (-6%)

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.

Fires near this place

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Rosholt between 1992 and 2018, burning about 68 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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 burning26
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 August 2012Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHENSLER LIGHTING STRIKE
10 August 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution1.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNORSKE ROAD FIRE
4 July 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 1995Recreation and ceremony1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAMILTON ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage 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 Rosholt: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Holt Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Moss Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosholt in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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 1998Thunderstorm WindRosholt$20,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindRosholt$15,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRosholt-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Rosholt. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRosholt-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines in Rosholt. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRosholt-Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree and power line damage. The worst of the damage was across northeast Portage County.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindRosholt-High winds from thunderstorms knocked down trees and tree limbs northeast of Rosholt.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRosholt-no account filed
May 2004HailRosholt-no account filed
May 2002HailRosholt-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindRosholt-no account filed
August 2000HailRosholt-no account filed
August 2000HailRosholt-no account filed
May 1998HailRosholt-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindRosholt-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Alban1.3 miles7
Garfield4.6 miles7
Little Waupon5.1 miles7
Peru5.3 miles7
North Star6.1 miles7
Polonia6.8 miles7
Ellis8.2 miles7
New Hope8.9 miles7

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 RosholtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1844339The 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 1572619. 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.