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Greenfield School
Built in 1887 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
From the record
“The Greenfield School in West Allis, Wisconsin was built as a two-room school in 1887, but in an elegant Romanesque Revival style unusual for such buildings. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.”
Wikipedia article Greenfield School (West Allis, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1887, Romanesque Revival architecture, by Herman Schnetzky.
National Register reference number.06000207- 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
43 since 2018
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Greenfield School
between 2018 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
26
Debris and open burning
9
Smoking
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Greenfield School: 3 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
West Allis, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 22 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 flood.
The reports record 3 deaths and 3 injuries. 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.
A 10 year old boy fell into rapidly rising waters of a concrete drainage ditch after a thunderstorm with heavy rainfall. His father and neighbor jumped in to help, but all three were swept away and drowned. The boy was found downstream the next day in the Kinnickinnic River. The other two men were found June 16th in the same river.
Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding ini parts of Milwaukee County, especially in the West Allis to Wauwatosa area east to the Downtown Milwaukee area. Many roads were covered with water to a depth of 1 to 3 feet. Basement flooding was reported. Milwaukee Mitchell Field measured 3.65 inches of rain in the 24-hour period ending 2000 CST. WSR-88D Doppler radar rainfall estimates were in the 3 to 5 inch range over parts of Milwaukee County. The City of Milwaukee sewer system was overwhelmed. High water levels on the Menomonee River jsut east of Miller Park resulted in part of an earthen berm being washed away. The subsequent flood water moved west to Miller Park and extensively flooded the lower service area, clubhouses, and part of the dugouts and warehouse. The playing field wasn't affected. Milwaukee Brewer executives said damage was in the millions, but they would not specify an amount. Therfore, for the purpose of this StormData documentation, a value of $5 Million was assiged.||A Uniform Disaster Situation Report generated by the Milwaukee County Emergency Management indicated that at least 1227 homes sustained minor flood damage, and at least 2 homes had major damage, for a monetary loss of about $7,079,000. Also, at least 12 businesses sustained minor flood damage and 1 had major damage for a business loss estimate of $215,000. The total estimated private sector damage in this report was $7,294,000. Additionally, damage in the public sector amounted to about $40,000 to road systems, about $25,000 to water control facilities, about $269,000 to public buildings & related equipment, and about $5,000 to public utility systems. The total public sector damage estimate is about $339,000. Other costs in the report included about $24,000 in debris clearance, about $21,385 for protective measures, and about $107,718 in miscellaneous expenses. However, the last three values are not considered direct property damage. Flood damage to Miller Park is not included in the Uniform report.
Cleveland Ave. was closed due to flash flood waters up to 2 to 3 feet deep. Several cars stalled and were damaged. Roughly half of the streets in West Allis had flood waters of varying depth. Some basement flooding was reported, with some contents damaged.
Around 3 inches of rain in a little over an hour led to flash flooding of the KK River Parkway and the Root River Parkway. Some lane closures occurred due to the flooding. Water levels up to the bumpers on cars. The KinderCare Learning Center in West Allis was evacuated by the fire department due to the deep water over the road that leads to the center.
Southbound Highway 45 was closed at Watertown Plank Road due to flooding. Between 1630CST and 1930CST, 3.81 inches of rain was reported. A couple cars stalled in water that was 3 to 4 feet deep, and they were damaged.
Many streets flooded mostly in the east central portions of the county, including on Humboldt Blvd. from North Ave. to Capitol Dr., and on Prospect Ave. Street flooding was also reported at Cleveland and 45th streets.
Thunderstorm wind gusts caused sporadic tree damage in parts of western Milwaukee. There was a report of a large tree with at least a 12 inch diameter base down 2 miles SSW of West Milwaukee. A large tree snapped at the base and there were several large branches down 2 miles ENE of Wauwatosa.
A severe thunderstorm produced damaging wind gusts estimated up to 70 mph (61 knots). Trees were knocked down and tree branches were broken by the strong winds.
Strong winds knocked large branches out of trees and toppled several large trees. Some power-lines were snapped by tree debris. A trained spotter in Cudahy had a measured wind gust of 66 mph.
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.
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.
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