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Photograph of Marshfield Post Office
Photograph by Jeff the quiet, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Marshfield Post Office

Built in 1930 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Wood County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1930, Neoclassical architecture.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 202 S. Chestnut Ave., Marschfield, 54449
  • When was it listed? October 2000
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. United States Post Office Construction in Wisconsin MPS
  • City. Marshfield city
  • When was it built? 1930
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 00001243 - 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Marshfield Post Office between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 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/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources164
12 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005074
25 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2004849
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2004798
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2004792
29 December 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2012241
6 November 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2011289

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Marshfield Post Office: 3 past producers. None of them 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Stadt Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ross Blott Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Scheuer Creek Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wood 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Gov. William H. Upham Houseunder 500 feet1976
Upham House Historic Districtunder 500 feet2008
Weinbrenner Shoe Factoryunder 500 feet2008
Willard D. Purdy Junior High and Vocational School0.1 miles1992
Marshfield Central Avenue Historic District0.1 miles1993
Columbia Park Band Shell0.3 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001243 in Record Group 79.
Wood CountyAll 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.