John and Justina Palo Homestead

Built in 1910 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The John and Justina Palo Homestead is located in Oulu, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article John and Justina Palo Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Bayfield County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1910, vernacular architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Palo, John and Justina, Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 71055 Muskeg Rd., Oulu, 54847
When was it listed? September 2002
Category. building
Town. Oulu town
When was it built? 1910
Architectural style. vernacular architecture, Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 02001007 - 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of John and Justina Palo Homestead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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	49
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	4
Other causes	3
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
20 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HOOVER FIRE
11 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.6 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	IRON FIRE 9
14 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	IRON FIRE 8
14 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	IRON FIRE 7

Every fire recorded in Bayfield County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of John and Justina Palo Homestead: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Prospect Near Waino	Copper, Lead	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Waino	Copper	Occurrence
Deep Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hitesman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hokkinen Rd Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Iron River Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Bayfield 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001007 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bayfield 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.
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.