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Photograph of Gulbrand and Bertha Jensvold House
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Gulbrand and Bertha Jensvold House

Built in 1869. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Gulbrand and Bertha Jensvold House is a historic farmhouse built in 1868-69 in Perry, Wisconsin. It was added to the State Register of Historic Places in 2007 and to the National Register of Historic Places the following year.”

Wikipedia article Gulbrand and Bertha Jensvold House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1869.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Jensvold, Gulbrand and Bertha, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1033 WI 78, Perry, 53572
  • When was it listed? April 2008
  • Category. building
  • Town. Perry town
  • When was it built? 1869
  • National Register reference number. 08000370 - 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

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Gulbrand and Bertha Jensvold House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
2 May 2020Debris and open burning2.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020-14
7 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-1226
6 April 2019Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019-20
5 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20183
5 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019-18
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20224
20 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20188
16 April 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20213

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gulbrand and Bertha Jensvold House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Haag QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dane 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Onon B. and Betsy Dahle House0.2 miles2008
Hauge Log Church1.2 miles1974
John Sweet Donald Farmstead7.6 miles1984
Henry L. and Sarah Dahle House7.6 miles2003
Main Street Historic District7.6 miles2019
Mt. Horeb Opera Block7.7 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000370 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane CountyAll 238 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.