Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain. Via
Wikimedia Commons.
Steam Locomotive #1385
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“Chicago and North Western 1385 is an R-1 class 4-6-0 "Ten-Wheeler" type steam locomotive owned by the Mid-Continent Railway Museum (MCRY). Built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in March 1907, the locomotive was one of 325 R-1s to be built for the Chicago and North Western Railway (CN&W) throughout the 1900s.”
Wikipedia article Chicago and North Western 1385, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 58 National Register listings published here for Sauk County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.00000524- 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
102 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Steam Locomotive #1385
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 294 acres in total. 1 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
38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Railroad operations and maintenance
11
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Smoking
5
Arson/incendiarism
5
Recreation and ceremony
4
Other causes
2
Fireworks
2
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Steam Locomotive #1385: 6 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Flagstone, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
North Freedom, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood.
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.
A portion of the Fire Department's roof torn off in North Freedom. A few mobile homes with roof damage. Several trees uprooted and many tree limbs and powerlines down. Some trees down on homes.
Numerous reports of multiple trees, limbs, and powerlines downed. The hardest hit areas were from North Freedom to Loganville to Baraboo. There was one report of roof damage to a garage and a chicken coop that was blown over.
The Baraboo River peaked around 22.6 feet on September 25th in Rock Springs. Floodwaters affected Highways DD, 154 and 136 in Rock Springs as well as Busser Park along Highway 136. More specifically highway 136 was closed between highway 33 and highway 154. A portion of highway 154 and DD was closed in Rock Springs. |Water is about 3.5 to 4 feet deep in the baseball diamond in Fireman's Park along Highway DD. Floodwaters affect some businesses, including the Post Office, on Highway 154 in Rock Springs. There was water in basements of some homes.
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
6 within 8 miles
Other 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.
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.
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