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Saint Rose, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Smelser town. It lies in ZIP code area 53807. The Survey maps it on the Cuba City quadrangle. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Saint Rose within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

2,330 words on this township

History of Grant County Wisconsin, published 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Smelser Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Smelser Town - 2,330 words.

Fires near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Saint Rose between 2018 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
Debris and open burning1
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
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202013
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20064
18 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202011
4 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201808

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 108 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 108 workings within 5 miles of Saint Rose: 57 unknowns, 47 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, 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
Raisbeck MineZinc, Barium-Barite, LeadUnknownBarite
Upper Mississippi Valley Zn - Pb Dist. MinesZinc, Lead, Cadmium, Copper, Barium-BariteProducer1750
Hird No.1 MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1913, 1915
New Calvert MineZinc, LeadProspect1917
Big Patch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
George Wendtlandt Inc Deiter QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Johns QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mauthe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Beloit-ElmoLead, ZincPast Producer1908, 1909
Century MineLead, ZincPast Producer1900

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Cuba City1.3 miles14
Elmo1.3 miles13
Georgetown2.7 miles14
Bigpatch3.7 miles13
Hazel Green6.3 miles14
Jamestown6.5 miles17
Louisburg7.1 miles17
Platteville8.0 miles13

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 Saint RoseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7402140The 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 1577808. 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.