Saxonia House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

Sources: 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 sitess, 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 421 WI H, Farmington, 53021
When was it listed? February 2006
Category. building
Town. Farmington town
National Register reference number. 06000068 - 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Saxonia House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 18 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
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
28 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	785
17 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 June 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19017
6 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18017
26 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20038
15 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	838
29 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	755
26 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	753

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Saxonia House: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Clump Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hartman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hartmann Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
St. John of God Roman Catholic Church, Convent, and School	2.8 miles	1979
St. Peter's Church	3.4 miles	1983
Lizard Mound State Park	4.8 miles	2023
Gadow's Mill	7.4 miles	1974
Barton Historic District	7.5 miles	1992
Barton Elementary School	7.5 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000068 in Record Group 79.
Washington County	All 30 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.