J.B. Bouche House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Bouche House is located in Brussels, Wisconsin. It was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article J.B. Bouche House, 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Bouche, J.B., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 9697 School Rd., Brussels, 54204
When was it listed? May 2004
Category. building
Town. Brussels town
National Register reference number. 04000411 - 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 J.B. Bouche House 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	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
7 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	39
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
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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of J.B. Bouche House: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Crossroads Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	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
Simons Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Swampside Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Door County

Storms near this property

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brussels, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Brussels	$3,000	no account filed
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Brussels	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in the town of Gardner. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Brussels	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Brussels. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Brussels	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Brussels. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
July 2007	Hail	Brussels	-	A thunderstorm that dropped nickel size hail also produced strong straight-line winds and knocked out power to a campground near Brussels.
April 2003	Hail	Brussels	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Brussels	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Brussels	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Brussels	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Brussels	-	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Brussels	-	no account filed

Every storm 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	0.8 miles	2004
Joseph Monfils Farmstead	2.0 miles	2004
Louis Vangindertahlen House	2.1 miles	2004
August Draize Farmstead	2.2 miles	2004
Namur Belgian-American District	2.7 miles	1989
Joint Brussels and Garner Dristrict School Number One	4.0 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000411 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.
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.