Photograph of The Everett Resort — Photograph by Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Everett Resort, The

Built in 1896. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Everett Resort is located in Washington, Vilas County, Wisconsin, on a peninsula between Catfish and Cranberry Lakes. Started in the 1890s, it was one of the first resorts in the area.”
Wikipedia article The Everett Resort, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Vilas County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1896.

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 15 buildingss, 4 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1269 Everett Rd., Washington, 54521
When was it listed? October 2008
Category. building
Town. Washington town
When was it built? 1896
National Register reference number. 08000982 - 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Everett Resort, The between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Recreation and ceremony	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Other causes	5
Fireworks	4
Natural	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
3 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WILD EAGLE
1 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SPRING MEADOW RD
6 July 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2002	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Vilas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Everett Resort, The: 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Carpenter Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Eagle Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Eagle Lake Rd Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mud Creek Gravel Pit #4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Oneida County Operations	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Rade Lake Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Richter Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Shangri La Lane Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Spirit Lake Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Vilas 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
Jabodon	0.5 miles	2009
Sunset Point	0.8 miles	1993
Eagle River Stadium	2.0 miles	1994
St. Peter's Catholic School	3.5 miles	2018
Region Nine Training School	3.6 miles	1996
Eagle River Downtown Historic District	3.8 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000982 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Vilas County	All 15 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.