Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“The Waterloo Downtown Historic District in Waterloo, Wisconsin is a 5.2 acres (2.1 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Waterloo Downtown Historic District (Waterloo, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2000 · category: District.
National Register reference number.00001360- 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
20 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Waterloo Downtown Historic District
between 2003 and 2020, burning about 461 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Arson/incendiarism
3
Recreation and ceremony
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Waterloo Downtown Historic District: 2 past producers, 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Waterloo, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 16 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 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.
Approximately 100 911 calls related to flash flooding in Watertown. Numerous streets in Watertown flooded and closed. Some neighborhoods completely flooded with streets, yards, and driveways filled with water. Basement flooding common. A portion of Jefferson Rd. washed out at the bridge where a creek flows into the nearby Rock River. Other road damage or washouts as well. Three vehicle water rescues involving 4 citizens performed by the fire department. A section of track ballast was washed away compromising the railroad ties and tracks. The flooding caused a sanitary sewer overflow/bypass around 10 AM. Additional street flooding and basement flooding in Waterloo, Ixonia, and northern Jefferson County with some city streets and county roads closed and damaged. Overall, 93 homes sustained affected damage and 66 homes with minor damage. 5 businesses also sustained minor damage.
The public reported numerous trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 75 mph (65 knots). The damage, in a 6-mile wide swath from 2 miles south of Waterloo to 2.5 miles east of Ixonia, included the destruction of a large pole barn, which had 4-inch by 4-inch support posts ripped out of the ground by the winds. Other homes, barns and sheds were reported to be damaged by the severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
A swath of scattered tree, power line, and structural damage across northern Jefferson County. This included many uprooted and snapped trees, power lines down, and fallen trees on vehicles especially in Waterloo and Watertown. Eight power poles were snapped on East Clarkson Rd. in Waterloo. A farm on highway B east of Johnson Creek suffered severe silo damage, and a grove of trees were knocked down nearby.
An EF-1 rated tornado developed south of Marshall near Highway 73, proceeding northwestward, damaging several farms and large areas of trees, before dissipating on the south side of Waterloo. This portion of the path was toward the end of the tornado and didn't do too much additional damage in Jefferson county besides a few trees being uprooted.
Law enforcement officials reported damage from severe thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 knots (75 mph) in a 3-mile wide swath from Waterloo to northeast of Ixonia. The damaging winds downed numerous trees and power lines.
The Jefferson County Emergency Manager reported many trees and power lines were blown down in Waterloo from damaging thunderstorm wind gusts that were estimated up to 65 mph ( knots).
Flooded roads, yards, fields, and basements continued the remainder of the day with some improvement after 5 to 8 inches of rain. The cities of Watertown and Waterloo were most impacted by the flood waters. The Rock River in Watertown briefly reached minor flood stage from 11:10 AM CST to 12:00 PM CST. Lowland areas and parks near the Rock River were flooded throughout northern Jefferson County.
An EF0 tornado began about 3.5 miles southwest of Waterloo on Veith Road, about a mile west of the intersection of VeIth Road and CTH O. The tornado moved east-southeast before dissipating just east of STH 89, about 2 miles north of the interchange of STH 89 and I-94. Damage was mostly to trees along an intermittent path, which averaged 20 yards in width. No structural damage was found. The EF-rating was based on DI 27 (TH) DOD2 which suggests maximum winds speeds of 65 mph. The exact start location is Lat 43.135917 and Lon -89.013528. The exact end location is 43.120889 and Lon -88.901667.
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
2 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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