Rutland United Brethren in Christ Meeting House and Cemetery

Built in 1852. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Rutland United Brethren in Christ Meeting House and Cemetery is a rather simple frame church built in 1852 in Rutland, Wisconsin. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 for its religious significance.”
Wikipedia article Rutland United Brethren in Christ Meeting House and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1852.

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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 687 US 14, Rutland, 53575
When was it listed? September 2004
Category. building
Town. Rutland town
When was it built? 1852
National Register reference number. 04001002 - 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

18 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Rutland United Brethren in Christ Meeting House and Cemetery between 2006 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	83
14 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	26 acres	Leopold Wetland Management District	BIGLOW RD
5 May 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TRAILER DRAGGING
3 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	55
1 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	54
8 April 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BADFISH
5 April 2006	Debris and open burning	41 acres	Leopold Wetland Management District	LUND CONVERSION
22 April 2018	Smoking	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18418

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rutland United Brethren in Christ Meeting House and Cemetery: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Reindahl Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Halverson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Reindahl Quarries	Stone, Crushed/Broken	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
Francis Marian Ames Farmstead	1.8 miles	1992
Lockwood Barn	1.9 miles	1982
Samuel Hunt House	2.1 miles	1982
Sereno W. Graves House	2.3 miles	1982
Daniel Pond Farmhouse	2.5 miles	1980
Oregon Water Tower and Pump House	3.3 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001002 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.