BlockFrom the record
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Dodge County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Zirbel-Hildebrandt Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The listing
- Listed as. Zirbel--Hildebrandt Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. W1328-1330 WI 33, Herman, 53050
- When was it listed? December 2007
- Category. building
- Town. Herman town
- National Register reference number. 07001271 - 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.
The ground it stands on
1,468 wordsThis property stands in Herman Town. The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Herman Town - 1,468 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
7 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Zirbel-Hildebrandt Farmstead between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 130 |
| 5 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2000023 |
| 26 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 3618010 |
| 24 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1800020 |
| 20 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 83 |
| 27 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1900028 |
| 18 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1801029 |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Zirbel-Hildebrandt Farmstead: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Copper, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayville Mine | Iron, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | 1892, 1928 | |
| Mayville White Lime Quarry | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Merget Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Iron Ridge Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1849, 1914 | |
| Iron Ridge Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1849 | |
| Mayville Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1892 |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solomon and Josette Juneau House | 5.8 miles | 2024 | |
| Widmer' s Cheese Cellars | 5.8 miles | 2025 | |
 | Hollenstein Wagon and Carriage Factory | 5.9 miles | 1979 |
 | Main Street Historic District | 6.0 miles | 1995 |
 | Beaumont Hotel | 6.0 miles | 1988 |
 | White Limestone School | 6.2 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 07001271 in Record Group 79. |
| Dodge County | All 36 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.