Photograph of Kate Kelly — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

KATE KELLY (Shipwreck)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Kate Kelly was a 126-foot wood-hulled two-masted schooner that sank in 1895 off the coast of Wind Point, Wisconsin, United States. In 2007 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Kate Kelly (shipwreck), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Racine County · listed in 2007 · 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. L. Michigan, 2 mi. E of Wind Pt., Wind Point
When was it listed? November 2007
Category. site
Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
National Register reference number. 07001219 - 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of KATE KELLY (Shipwreck) in 2018, burning about 4 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
15 June 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1801102
2 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1803754
10 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1803086
15 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1802287
1 February 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1801010
18 October 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1802016

Every fire recorded in Racine 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
Windpoint Light Station	1.7 miles	1984
Herbert F. Johnson House	2.3 miles	1975
Melvin Avenue Residential Historic District	3.5 miles	2011
Northside Historic District of Cream Brick Workers' Cottages	3.9 miles	1994
Racine Harbor Lighthouse and Life Saving Station	4.2 miles	1975
Hansen House	4.3 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001219 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Racine County	All 57 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.