Wakely Road Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Wood County · listed in 2001 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Wakely Road over Wakely Creek, Saratoga, 54457
When was it listed? April 2001
Category. structure
Town. Saratoga town
National Register reference number. 01000345 - 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

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Wakely Road Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 246 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	48
Debris and open burning	44
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Arson/incendiarism	14
Recreation and ceremony	12
Smoking	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Other causes	5
Natural	4
Fireworks	2

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
6 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ROCKET
4 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PRYNE FIRE
28 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LYNN HILL FIRE
23 September 1998	Other causes	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire 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

4 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
Wakeley's Tavern	0.1 miles	1974
Nels and Nellie Johnson House	6.6 miles	2019
Wood County Courthouse	7.2 miles	2015
Elizabeth Daly House	7.3 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000345 in Record Group 79.
Wood County	All 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.