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Stone, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Rutland town. It lies in ZIP code area 53575. It stands on Oregon Branch. The Survey maps it on the Evansville quadrangle. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Stone within Dane County

On record in Stone

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 within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Stone between 2006 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning7
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources83
14 July 2012Arson/incendiarism26 acresLeopold Wetland Management DistrictBIGLOW RD
13 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190
5 May 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRAILER DRAGGING
3 May 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources55
1 May 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources54
8 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBADFISH
5 April 2006Debris and open burning41 acresLeopold Wetland Management DistrictLUND CONVERSION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Stone: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Halverson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hawkinson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Knutson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Reindahl QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rock County Highway DepartmentStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Union PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stone in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 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
July 2010Flash FloodStone$100,000Training thunderstorms produced 2.5 to 4.5 inches of rain in about two hours over mainly the northern half of the county. Street flooding stranded cars in Sun Prairie, various locations in the city of Madison, Oregon, Middleton and DeForest. Three to four feet of water covered the intersection of Commercial Avenue and Ckronke Road in Sun Prairie, stalling cars and filling some home basements and commercial buildings with water, that damaged contents.
April 2023HailStone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Rutland2.1 miles19
Pleasant Hill4.6 miles19
Rolling Acres5.2 miles19
Oregon5.3 miles20
Dunkirk5.3 miles19
Riverwood Estates5.3 miles19
Stoughton5.7 miles19
Bayview Heights5.8 miles19

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 StoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7618826The 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 1577840. 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.