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Rugby Junction, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Polk town. It lies in ZIP code area 53076. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle. It stands 991 feet above sea level.

Rugby Junction within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

33 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Rugby Junction between 2013 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801183
19 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801111
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources257
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18200
17 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019083
7 April 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTHERESA
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000045
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18185

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Rugby Junction: 5 producers, 2 unknowns. 5 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
Jackson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hubertos PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Johann Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Merget Pit Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Richfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rugby PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schulties PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Ackerville2.4 miles15
Richfield2.8 miles15
Mayfield2.8 miles15
Cedar Creek3.3 miles15
Jackson3.5 miles15
Hubertus3.8 miles20
Slinger4.6 miles15
Diefenbach Corners4.8 miles15

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 Rugby JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7378188The 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 1577803. 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.