Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
From the record
“The Jefferson High School in Wisconsin is an American public high school, that serves the city of Jefferson as well as the neighboring towns of Jefferson, Aztalan, Farmington, Hebron, Oakland, Concord and Sullivan, and various villages and unincorporated areas. One of its historic buildings is listed on the U.S.”
Wikipedia article Jefferson High School (Jefferson, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.00001643- 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
13 since 2014
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Jefferson High School
between 2014 and 2020, burning about 272 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Arson/incendiarism
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 Jefferson High School: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Jefferson, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 4 flood, 2 flash 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 twenty by twenty foot section of Jefferson High School's roof was torn off. In addition, many large trees and power lines were knocked down in and around the city of Jefferson.
Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled trees and resulted in damage to power-lines and cable-TV lines. Electrical customers were without power for several hours. Associated rain was described as going sideways in white sheets. Between Jeffeson and Helenville a couple roads were blocked with tree debris. About 2 inches of rain accompanied the storms.
The Rock River near Jefferson experienced moderate flooding, cresting at 12.31 feet, or 2.31 feet over the flood stage of 10 feet, at 658 AM CDT on April 20th. The river remained above flood stage into May.
The Rock River at Jefferson reached moderate flood stage, cresting at 11 feet the morning of October 12th. Floodwaters affect low lying areas of residential and business property in Jefferson. Water approaches the intersection of Main St. and E. Dane St. The retention pond at this intersection is full. South Center Ave. near the river is flooded and Riverview Drive near the wastewater plant is flooded. Riverfront Park is flooded.
The Rock River at Jefferson reached moderate flood stage, cresting at 11.5 feet the late morning of March 16th. Floodwaters affect low lying areas of residential and business property in Jefferson. Water approaches the intersection of Main St. and E. Dane St. South Center Ave. near the river is flooded and E. Riverview Drive near the wastewater plant is flooded and closed. Flooding in Riverfront Park.
The Rock River at Jefferson reached moderate flood stage, cresting at 11.72 feet the afternoon of September 8th. Floodwaters affect some low lying residences and businesses in Jefferson. Shallow floodwaters at the intersection of Main St. and E. Dane St., and nearby S. Center Ave. Riverview Drive near the wastewater plant is flooded and closed. Floodwaters affect portions of Highway K between Jefferson and Fort Atkinson.
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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