Kohler Company Factory Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Kohler Co., is an American manufacturing company founded in 1873 by John Michael Kohler, based in Kohler, Wisconsin. Kohler is best known for its plumbing products, but the company also manufactures furniture, cabinetry, tile, engines, and generators.”
Wikipedia article Kohler Co., CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Sheboygan County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 444 Highland Dr., Kohler, 53044
When was it listed? April 2001
Category. building
Village. Kohler village
National Register reference number. 01000318 - 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Kohler Company Factory Complex between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	3762
12 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	3283
31 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2360
10 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1679
6 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1469
4 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1310
10 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1518
1 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1713

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this property

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kohler, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2013	Flood	Kohler	$15,000	The Sheboygan near Sheboygan crested at 11.54 feet, 3.54 feet above flood stage, at 805 pm CDT on March 12th.
April 2013	Flood	Kohler	$10,000	The Sheboygan River in Sheboygan experienced moderate flooding, cresting at 10.23 feet, or 2.23 feet over the flood stage of 8 feet, at 925 PM CDT on April 11th.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Kohler	$5,000	Multiple reports of trees and large branches down as well as a power pole on fire.
March 2019	Flood	Kohler	$5,000	The Sheboygan River flooded low lying areas along the river due to several ice jams. The most impacted area was from just east of Kohler downstream to Kiwanis Park in Sheboygan. Portions of Indiana Ave. and New Jersey Ave., as well as other roads were closed due to flooding. At least one vehicle was submerged in the floodwaters on New Jersey Ave.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Kohler	$2,000	Several tree limbs down.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Kohler	$2,000	Large tree branches down.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Kohler	$500	A large american flag at 400 feet above ground was shredded by strong winds. A measured wind gust of 90 mph was recorded at the top of the flag pole.
July 2006	Hail	Kohler	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Kohler	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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
American Club	0.3 miles	1978
Riverbend	1.1 miles	1980
David Taylor House	1.6 miles	1976
Cole Historic District	1.9 miles	1988
Windway	1.9 miles	1988
Downtown Historic District	2.0 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000318 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheboygan County	All 60 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.
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.