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Photograph of SS Appomattox
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

APPOMATTOX (Shipwreck)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“SS Appomattox was a wooden-hulled, American Great Lakes freighter that ran aground on Lake Michigan, off Atwater Beach off the coast of Shorewood, Wisconsin in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States in 1905. On January 20, 2005 the remnants of the Appomattox were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article SS Appomattox, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 2005 · category: Site.

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 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off Atwater Beach, Shorewood, 53211
  • When was it listed? January 2005
  • Category. site
  • National Register reference number. 04001547 - 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of APPOMATTOX (Shipwreck) between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1767699
7 August 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1767727
13 August 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1769924
29 July 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1764515
10 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804397
8 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1746257
19 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1750036
13 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803693

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of APPOMATTOX (Shipwreck): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Thorium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cerac Inc.REE, ThoriumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shorewood, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 2 lightning, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2018LightningShorewood$405,000A home fire caused by a lightning strike resulted in the total loss of the home.
July 1997LightningShorewood$25,000Lightning induced fire destoyed a garage and parked car.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindShorewood$15,000Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts up to 56 knots (65 mph) toppled several large trees and damaged some power-lines.
August 2006HailShorewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Milwaukee 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
APPOMATTOX (shipwreck) Boundary Increase0.2 miles2011
APPOMATTOX (shipwreck) (Boundary Increase II and Additional Documentation)0.3 miles2015
Seneca W. & Bertha Hatch House0.6 miles1985
Henry A. Meyer House0.6 miles1985
Thomas Bossert House0.6 miles1985
George E. Morgan House0.7 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001547 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Milwaukee CountyAll 300 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.