Port Washington Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Port Washington Downtown Historic District is the largely intact remainder of the old commercial downtown of Port Washington, Wisconsin, United States. It consists of about 40 contributing buildings built from the 1850s to the 1950s in various styles.”
Wikipedia article Port Washington Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Ozaukee 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 40 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly along N. Franklin St., from E Jackson St. to E Grand Ave., Port Washington, 53074
When was it listed? September 2000
Category. district
City. Port Washington city
National Register reference number. 00001070 - 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Port Washington Downtown Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 4 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
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
31 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19700
26 April 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20567
16 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20541
21 March 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1041
18 November 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1201
15 November 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018086

Every fire recorded in Ozaukee 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 Port Washington Downtown Historic District: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Ozaukee County

Storms near this property

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Washington, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 11 hail, 6 lightning, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2002	Flood	Port Washington	1 hurt	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Port Washington	$5,300,000	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Port Washington	$200,000	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Port Washington	$200,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Washington	$150,000	no account filed
May 2004	Lightning	Port Washington	$100,000	no account filed
May 2004	Lightning	Port Washington	$25,000	no account filed
August 2001	Lightning	Port Washington	$15,000	no account filed
May 1998	Lightning	Port Washington	$15,000	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Washington	$10,000	Numerous trees and power lines down.
August 1999	Lightning	Port Washington	$10,000	no account filed
July 1998	Lightning	Port Washington	$8,000	no account filed
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Washington	-	Law enforcement officials reported tree damage by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 56 knots (65 mph).
April 1995	Hail	Port Washington	-	Scattered severe thunderstorms generated damaging winds and hail up to one inch in diameter across southern Wisconsin. Powerful winds blew down many large trees and power lines in Grant County. Hail was the main afternoon event over southeast Wisconsin. One inch diameter hail was produced by two separate storms over Kenosha County. As with the morning (May 18th) severe weather across southern Wisconsin, the afternoon storms raced northeastward at speeds of 50 to 60 mph.
April 2016	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
August 2015	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Washington	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
November 2003	Heavy Rain	Port Washington	-	no account filed
August 2002	Flood	Port Washington	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
July 1996	Waterspout	Port Washington	-	no account filed
June 1996	Flood	Port Washington	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ozaukee 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
Port Washington Fire Engine House	0.1 miles	2009
Edward Dodge House	0.1 miles	1975
Port Washington Light Station	0.1 miles	1999
Old Ozaukee County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1976
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church	0.2 miles	1977
Hoffman House Hotel	0.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001070 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ozaukee County	All 38 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.