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Rothschild, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Rothschild Village. The Survey maps it on the Wausau East quadrangle. 5,567 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,198 feet above sea level.

Rothschild within Marathon County

On record in Rothschild

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

Rothschild grew from 5,269 to 5,567 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
20105,269
20205,567+298 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Rothschild between 1992 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use31
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFAWN RD.
24 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources11260

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marathon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Rothschild: 5 past producers, 5 occurrences, 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
Beilke QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rib Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thurber Granite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wimmer PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cedar Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gardner Park Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Happy Hollow Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Happy Hollow Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kelly Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rothschild Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rothschild in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindRothschild$3,000no account filed
May 2025HailRothschild-Golf ball size hail fell near Weston.
July 2010Funnel CloudRothschild-A funnel cloud was spotted near the intersection of County Highway Q and Weston Avenue.
June 2007HailRothschild-no account filed
April 2006HailRothschild-no account filed
June 2006HailRothschild-no account filed
August 2006LightningRothschild-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindRothschild-no account filed
July 1998Funnel CloudRothschild-no account filed
June 1998HailRothschild-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindRothschild-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marathon 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
Schofield1.8 miles12
Evergreen3.2 miles10
Rib Mountain3.4 miles12
Kelly3.5 miles12
Wausau Junction3.8 miles12
Weston3.9 miles12
Kronenwetter4.8 miles10
Wausau5.0 miles12

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 RothschildAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q537826The 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 1572629. 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.