August Draize Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The August Draize Farmstead is located in Union, Door County, Wisconsin. The farmstead is notable in part due to its association with the history of Belgian settlement in Wisconsin.”
Wikipedia article August Draize Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

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 6 buildingss, 2 sitess, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Draize, August, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 814 Tru-Way Rd., Union, 54204
When was it listed? May 2004
Category. building
Town. Union town
National Register reference number. 04000398 - 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

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of August Draize Farmstead between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	43
18 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	38
18 June 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	33
8 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	26
2 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	21
6 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20
5 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19
5 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	17

Every fire recorded in Door County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of August Draize Farmstead: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Macco Creek Dolomite Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Reiner Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Charles Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit No 7 - Brussels	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Swampside Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Door 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
Joachine J. Falque House	1.6 miles	2004
J.B. Bouche House	2.2 miles	2004
Namur Belgian-American District	3.0 miles	1989
Joseph Monfils Farmstead	4.0 miles	2004
Louis Vangindertahlen House	4.2 miles	2004
Joint Brussels and Garner Dristrict School Number One	6.1 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000398 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Door County	All 68 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.