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Rostok, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pierce town. It lies in ZIP code area 54216. It stands on Mashek Creek. The Survey maps it on the Casco quadrangle. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Rostok within Kewaunee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Rostok between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources44
14 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201813
16 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Rostok: 10 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. 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
Alaska Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
C Novak Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
E Larsen Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
H Neuzil Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kassner Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kewaunee Cnty. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kewaunee Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kewaunee Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lautscher Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mashek Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Kewaunee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rostok in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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
April 2017HailRostok-Quarter size hail fell north of Kewaunee.

Every storm recorded in Kewaunee 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
Alaska2.7 miles8
Kewaunee3.0 miles8
Clyde4.4 miles8
Slovan4.8 miles8
Birchwood4.8 miles8
Ryans Corner5.7 miles8
Rio Creek6.4 miles8
Rankin6.5 miles8

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 RostokAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7370044The 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 1572627. 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.