Effigy Mounds National Monument

Built in 1949. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves more than 200 prehistoric mounds built by pre-Columbian Mound Builder cultures, mostly in the first millennium CE, during the later part of the Woodland period of pre-Columbian North America. Numerous effigy mounds are shaped like animals, including bears and birds.”
Wikipedia article Effigy Mounds National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Allamakee County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1949.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 3 mi. N of Marquette on IA 76, Marquette, 52157
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
When was it built? 1949
National Register reference number. 66000109 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Effigy Mounds National Monument between 1992 and 2015, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 June 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 May 2012	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BUTTERFLY ROCKET
19 May 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	VINEYARD FIRE
9 April 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Allamakee County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Effigy Mounds National Monument: 5 unknowns, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Own Crews	Stone	Unknown
Own Crews	Stone	Unknown
Lakeside Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Prairie Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pretitti Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Marquette Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Wetzel Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Allamakee County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000109 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Allamakee County	All 21 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.