William and Mary Shelton Farmstead

Built in 1863. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The William and Mary Shelton Farmstead is located in Seven Mile Creek, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article William and Mary Shelton Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Juneau County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1863.

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 7 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Shelton, William and Mary, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N2397 Cty Hwy K, Seven Mile Creek, 53948
When was it listed? August 2004
Category. building
Town. Seven Mile Creek town
When was it built? 1863
National Register reference number. 04000810 - 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of William and Mary Shelton Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Debris and open burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Smoking	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
6 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	JULY 5TH INTERSTATE
22 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 August 2004	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	70.6MM #1
2 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	70.6MM #2
2 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	DODGE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Juneau 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Juneau County Courthouse	4.9 miles	1982
	Benjamin Boorman House	5.0 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000810 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Juneau County	All 6 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.