Built in 1894 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
From the record
“The Prairie du Chien City Hall is the city of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin's historic former city hall. It was built in 1894 on the grounds of the city's former opera house, which burned down the previous year.”
Wikipedia article Prairie du Chien City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 18 National Register listings published here for Crawford County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1894, Italianate architecture.
National Register reference number.02001186- 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
56 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Prairie du Chien City Hall
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
19
Equipment and vehicle use
11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
9
Arson/incendiarism
6
Smoking
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Fireworks
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Other causes
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
11 workings within 5 miles of Prairie du Chien City Hall: 5 producers, 4 unknowns, 2 past producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Prairie du Chien, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 21 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 5 flood, 3 flash flood.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
The combination of melting snow and rainfall in late March pushed the Mississippi River out of its banks at Prairie du Chien for most of the month of April. The river gage just across the river at McGregor, Iowa crested over four feet above the flood stage at 21.38 feet on the 18th. During the flood, the city of Prairie du Chien closed access to St. Feriole Island and over 16,000 sand bags were used throughout Crawford county.
Trees were blown down on the north side of Prairie du Chien. Some of these trees landed on houses and cars. Some roof damage also occurred in the strong winds.
The automated weather observing equipment at the Prairie du Chien airport measured a 66 mph wind gust. Trees and power lines were blown down in parts of the city.
Significant upstream runoff from the combination of rainfall and melting snow resulted in many road closures in Prairie du Chien. These closures included St. Feriole Island, Highway 18, and County Road K. Many homes were affected with residents having to be evacuated from the rising waters.
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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