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Photograph of Wisconsin Concrete Park
Photograph by Sculpture created by Fred Smith. Copyright held by Friends of Fred Smith, Inc, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wisconsin Concrete Park

Built in 1964. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Wisconsin Concrete Park is a sculpture park located along Wisconsin Highway 13 in the town of Phillips, Wisconsin, United States. The park includes over 200 folk art sculptures built with concrete and decorated with glass bottles and other found objects.”

Wikipedia article Wisconsin Concrete Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Price County · listed in 2005 · category: Site · built in 1964.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. WI 13 S., Worcester, 54555
  • When was it listed? October 2005
  • Category. site
  • Town. Worcester town
  • When was it built? 1964
  • National Register reference number. 05001195 - 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Wisconsin Concrete Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 9 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
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Wisconsin Concrete Park: 9 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cramer Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cranberry Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Deer Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Duroy Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Liberty Lane Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Little Chicago Road Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Lookout Tower Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Phillips Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Phillips Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Pot Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Price County

Storms near this property

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worcester, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2020Flash FloodWorcester-Water over the roadway in the town of Worcester led to the roads being closed.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWorcester-Thunderstorm winds uprooted a large tree.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Worcester-A brief, weak tornado occurred north-northwest of Prentice. Only tree damage was noted along the damage path. [DI 28 (TS), DOD 2, EXP, Est Gust 75 mph].

Every storm recorded in Price 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Phillips High School1.4 miles1995
Lidice Memorial1.9 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05001195 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Price CountyAll 12 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.