Shorewood Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Shorewood Historic District is a large neighborhood on the west side of Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin - homes built in various styles between 1924 and 1963. In 2002 the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Shorewood Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Lake Mendota Dr., Tallyho Ln., Shorewood Blvd., and the Blackhawk Country Club, Village of Shorewood Hills, 53705
When was it listed? November 2002
Category. district
Village. Shorewood Hills village
National Register reference number. 02001432 - 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

31 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Shorewood Historic District between 2007 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 2 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	18
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	242
24 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019797
14 August 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018928
6 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	342
2 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2012493
15 June 2020	Smoking	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	305
14 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	304
5 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	190

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Shorewood Historic District: 10 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. 10 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Fess Quarry	Stone	Unknown
John Hensen Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Kapel-Marquardt Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Northwestern Stone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Zeigler Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Blooming Grove Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Engelhart Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Essers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Haen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Norway Grove Gravel Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Dane 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
College Hills Historic District	0.4 miles	2002
First Unitarian Society Meetinghouse	0.7 miles	1973
Forest Products Laboratory	1.1 miles	1995
Frank W. Hoyt Park	1.1 miles	2018
Sunset Hills Historic District	1.2 miles	2015
Sylvan Avenue - Ridge Road Historic District	1.3 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001432 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane County	All 238 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.