South Main Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The South Main Street Historic District is a surviving collection of eleven commercial buildings built from 1877 to 1915 in the old downtown of Oregon, Wisconsin, plus the WWI memorial. It was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article South Main Street Historic District (Oregon, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 10 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. S. Main St., jct. with Jefferson and Janesville Sts., Village of Oregon, 53575
When was it listed? June 2000
Category. district
Village. Oregon village
National Register reference number. 00000699 - 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

13,699 words

This property stands in Oregon Village. History of Dane County, Wisconsin ... Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Oregon Village - 13,699 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

12 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of South Main Street Historic District between 2014 and 2020, burning about 12 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	5
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
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
7 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1289
4 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	83
22 April 2018	Smoking	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18418
18 April 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Leopold Wetland Management District	SCHULTZ WF
12 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	43
11 April 2018	Smoking	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18389
10 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	94
1 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18335

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Main Street Historic District: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
	Reindahl Quarry	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Dane 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.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Oregon Masonic Lodge	under 500 feet	1992
First National Bank	under 500 feet	2007
Oregon Water Tower and Pump House	under 500 feet	2007
Oregon High School	0.2 miles	1998
John and Flora Gilbert House	0.4 miles	2007
Lincoln Street Historic District	0.4 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000699 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane County	All 238 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.