BlockFrom the record
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Marathon County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Edgar Village Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 107 W. Beech St., Edgar
- When was it listed? March 2000
- Category. building
- Village. Edgar village
- National Register reference number. 00000317 - 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.
The ground it stands on
9,467 wordsThe chapter on Edgar Village in History of Marathon County, Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, published 1913 names Edgar. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The wish of the people of Edgar to secure some other industry which would use the fine hardwood timber for a higher price article culminated in an association of Edgar business men and fanners, notably August Baesemann and Gustav Herman of the latter class, to build a veneer factory in 1 91 2 which would work up the splendid hardwood close to the village, and for which the raw material would outlast generations. When the mill was nearly complete an ofifer was made to them to sell to Eamy Brothers, who agreed to convert the plant into a basket factory. As a new industry the offer was accepted and the plant sold to them, and the factory lost no time
Passage source: History of Marathon County, Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, published 1913.
The real estate man of this active village is C. C. Barrett, who has not only the sale of village lots, but also of farming and timber lands, and for years administered the law as justice of the peace. A. C. Wagner is the postmaster of Edgar.
Passage source: History of Marathon County, Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, published 1913.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Edgar Village - 9,467 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
7 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Edgar Village Hall between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 acres 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 90220 |
| 27 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 082718B |
| 15 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 61518 |
| 1 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 60118 |
| 5 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 50518 |
| 28 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 42819 |
| 24 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 42419 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 27 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Edgar Village Hall: 15 occurrences, 11 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baeseman Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Big Rib River Gravel Deposit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Big Rib River Gravel Deposit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Knauf Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Morgan Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rib Falls Gravel Pit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Rib Falls Gravel Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Scotch Creek Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Alfred Krahn Granite Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Aspen Road Granite Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgar, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | $440,000 | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds heavily damaged a metal outbuilding and downed several trees and power lines near Edgar. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees north of Edgar. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Edgar | - | Nickel size hail fell near Edgar. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees near County Highways N and S, southwest of Marathon City. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Edgar | - | Nickel size hail fell on County Road H in Edgar. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Edgar | - | no account filed |
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.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fricke-Menzner House | 5.5 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000317 in Record Group 79. |
| Marathon County | All 33 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.
- 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.