West Side School

Built in 1924. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 2009 · category: Building · built in 1924.

Sources: 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.
Address. 718 W. Phillip St., Rhinelander, 54501
When was it listed? March 2009
Category. building
City. Rhinelander city
When was it built? 1924
National Register reference number. 09000124 - 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

210 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of West Side School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	63
Debris and open burning	52
Recreation and ceremony	21
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Power generation/transmission/distribution	14
Arson/incendiarism	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Smoking	7
Other causes	7
Fireworks	5
Natural	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
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 September 1999	Other causes	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FLYING FIRE
1 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of West Side School: 11 occurrences, 11 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. 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
County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Faust Lake Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Foss Lake Road Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Four Mile Creek Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Four Mile Creek Sand Deposit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Four Mile Creek Sand Deposit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Four Mile Creek Sand Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Four Mile Creek Sand Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fox Ranch Road Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hat Rapids Flowage Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this property

60 of 83 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rhinelander, the town this property stands in, in 83 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 38 hail, 33 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 3 heavy rain. The reports record 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	2 hurt, $2,000	no account filed
June 2002	Lightning	Rhinelander	2 hurt	no account filed
July 2001	Lightning	Rhinelander	$750,000	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	$100,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees south of Rhinelander. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	$13,000	Thunderstorms produced wind near 60 mph on the northeast side of Rhinelander. The storms knocked trees down on three properties in the same neighborhood, causing minor damage to two homes, a car, and a fence. In addition, the top of a petroleum asphalt tank was partially ripped off at a nearby business.
May 1994	Hail	Rhinelander	$5,000	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Rhinelander	$5,000	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Rhinelander	$5,000	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	$4,000	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	$3,000	no account filed
August 2013	Heavy Rain	Rhinelander	$2,000	The public reported an estimated 4 inches of rain in the Rhinelander area. There was standing water in a basement in the town of Pelican, on the east side of Rhinelander.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	$2,000	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	$1,000	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	$1,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees in Rhinelander. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
April 2021	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Penny size hail fell at WJFW-TV in Rhinelander.
May 2021	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Quarter size hail fell near Rhinelander.
May 2021	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Quarter size hail fell in Rhinelander.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Rhinelander. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in the city of Rhinelander.
July 2020	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Quarter size hail fell in Rhinelander.
July 2019	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Quarter size hail fell in Rhinelander.
July 2019	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Quarter size hail and heavy rain fell in Rhinelander.
August 2019	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Nickel size hail fell in Rhinelander.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in the town of Pine Lake.
April 2017	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Penny size hail fell near Rhinelander.
April 2017	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Penny size hail fell about 4 miles north of Rhinelander.
April 2017	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Penny size hail fell west of Rhinelander.
October 2016	Flood	Rhinelander	-	Heavy rainfall caused street flooding in Rhinelander, mainly west of the Wisconsin River in the area of Davenport Street and Maple Street.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in the Rhinelander area. The time of this event was estimated based on radar data.
July 2014	Hail	Rhinelander	-	A thunderstorm produced penny size hail in Rhinelander.
July 2014	Heavy Rain	Rhinelander	-	A line of thunderstorms produced torrential rainfall in the Rhinelander area as it slowly moved to the south. The rain caused street flooding in downtown Rhinelander. A few miles west of downtown Rhinelander, the automated weather observation system at Rhinelander Airport recorded 1.55 inches of rain in 19 minutes, including 0.81 inch in just five minutes between 7:02 PM and 7:07 PM CDT.
September 2014	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail north of Rhinelander.
June 2013	Hail	Rhinelander	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail south of Rhinelander.
June 2013	Hail	Rhinelander	-	A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail at WJFW-TV in Rhinelander.
May 2013	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail at Rhinelander.
May 2013	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail on County Highway W northeast of Rhinelander.
June 2013	Hail	Rhinelander	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail west of Rhinelander.
September 2012	Funnel Cloud	Rhinelander	-	Thunderstorms produced a funnel cloud over Rhinelander.
May 2011	Hail	Rhinelander	-	Quarter size hail fell in Rhinelander.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	Trees and power lines were blown down in the city of Rhinelander.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 mph were reported in the Town of Newbold.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines just north of Rhinelander.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	Trees reported down around the city of Rhinelander.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	Straight-line winds from thunderstorms downed and uprooted many trees across the county.
July 2007	Hail	Rhinelander	-	One inch diameter hail was reported in the city of Rhinelander.
June 2007	Hail	Rhinelander	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Rhinelander	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Rhinelander	-	no account filed
April 2002	Tornado (F0)	Rhinelander	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Rhinelander	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	no account filed
September 2001	Flood	Rhinelander	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Rhinelander	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Rhinelander	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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

3 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
First National Bank	0.8 miles	1973
Oneida County Courthouse	0.9 miles	1981
Solon and Mathilda Sutliff House	1.0 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000124 in Record Group 79.
Oneida County	All 20 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.
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.