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Jabodon

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Jabodon is a historic vacation resort in the Town of Washington, Vilas County, Wisconsin. The resort is located on Cranberry Lake in the Eagle River Chain of Lakes and exemplifies Northern Wisconsin vacation resorts of the early 20th century.”

Wikipedia article Jabodon, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Vilas County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.

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 4 structuress, 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1460 Everett Rd., Washington, 54521
  • When was it listed? March 2009
  • Category. building
  • Town. Washington town
  • National Register reference number. 09000164 - 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Jabodon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes5
Fireworks4
Natural1
Smoking1

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
3 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWILD EAGLE
1 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSPRING MEADOW RD
6 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2002Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot 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 Jabodon: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carpenter Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Eagle Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eagle Lake Rd Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mud Creek Gravel Pit #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Oneida County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Rade Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Richter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shangri La Lane Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Spirit Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Everett Resort, The0.5 miles2008
Sunset Point1.3 miles1993
Eagle River Stadium2.3 miles1994
St. Peter's Catholic School3.9 miles2018
Region Nine Training School3.9 miles1996
Eagle River Downtown Historic District4.1 miles2025

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000164 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Vilas CountyAll 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.