Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
“Hetty Taylor was a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan off Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States. In 2005 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Hetty Taylor shipwreck, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 60 National Register listings published here for Sheboygan County · listed in 2005 · category: Site.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of HETTY TAYLOR (shipwreck) in 2020, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 3762 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheboygan, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flood, 4 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Sheboygan | $40,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $40,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Lightning | Sheboygan | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Sheboygan | $20,000 | A trained spotter reported 3 feet of water over South Business Drive between Riverdale Avenue and Stahl Road in the town of Wilson 5 miles south-southwest of Sheboygan. Another trained spotter reported street flooding on the south side of the city of Sheboygan near the intersection of Weeden Creek road and 10th Street. The flooding damaged the contents of flooded basements and washed out gravel shoulders of roads. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flood | Sheboygan | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $6,000 | Scattered tree limbs down in Sheboygan including on a large van. A few photos provided. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Sheboygan | $5,000 | Street flooding on the south side of Sheboygan, including removed manhole covers from flooding sewers. Pictures of streets and yards flooded on the south side. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $5,000 | A barn door was blown off and items were blown out of the barn. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $5,000 | Winds from a severe thunderstorm lifted a 36 by 24 foot roof off from a warehouse in Sheboygan. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $4,000 | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $3,000 | Power poles broken and 3 inch diameter branches down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $2,000 | A large tree snapped off and landing on power lines. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Sheboygan | $2,000 | The Sheboygan River reached moderate flood stage, cresting at 11.07 feet the morning of May 18th. About 3 miles west of Sheboygan Airport, Woodland Road is flooded and closed between Rio Road and Willow Road due to the flooding of the Sheboygan River. Sections of Alpine Road and Meadowlark Road in the Sheboygan Falls area are flooded and closed. Floodwaters affect Kiwanis and Esslingen Parks in Sheboygan. Other roads and low lying areas are flooded in closed due to areal flooding from the several inches of rain that had fallen. |
| October 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Sheboygan | $1,000 | Street flooding in Sheboygan especially on and near 14th street from Geele Ave. to Indiana Ave. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Lightning | Sheboygan | $500 | no account filed |
| March 2026 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | Pictured provided of one inch hail. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | Large hail the size of pennys to quarters covered the ground white just northwest of the city limits of Sheboygan. No damage was noted. As the storm eventually moved through the city of Sheboygan it dumped heavy rains of 0.81 inches in about 45 minutes. Water accumulated on some roads to a depth of 3 to 5 inches. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | - | Measured by the Fox TV-6 school network site at North High School. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Heavy Rain | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| November 2003 | Heavy Rain | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Heavy Rain | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Flood | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Flood | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Third Ward School | 5.0 miles | 1981 |
 | ROBERT C. PRINGLE (tug) Shipwreck | 5.0 miles | 2020 |
| Sheboygan Municipal Auditorium and Armory | 5.3 miles | 2019 | |
| Badger State Tanning Company | 5.3 miles | 2018 | |
 | Jung Shoe Manufacturing Company Factory | 5.3 miles | 1992 |
 | Wolff-Jung Company Shoe Factory | 5.4 miles | 1992 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 05000535 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Sheboygan County | All 60 listed properties in this county. |
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