Lodi School Hillside Improvement Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Lodi School Hillside Improvement Site, also known as Veterans Memorial Park, is a former public works project listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site consists of two parcels located on Corner Street, between Pleasant Street and Columbus Street in Lodi, Wisconsin, United States.”
Wikipedia article Lodi School Hillside Improvement Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 55 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2009 · category: Site.

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 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Address. Corner St., bounded by Pleasant St. and Columbus St., Lodi, 53555
When was it listed? April 2009
Category. site
Town. Lodi town
National Register reference number. 09000198 - 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Lodi School Hillside Improvement Site between 1992 and 2020, burning about 195 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	54
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Recreation and ceremony	6
Other causes	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
27 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	KOLTES PASTURE
30 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BABYDOLL FIRE
21 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lodi School Hillside Improvement Site: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Quam Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
John Smith Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Thistle Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lodi, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 4 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 2010	Flash Flood	Lodi	$60,000	The Columbia County Emergency Manager reported gravel shoulder wash-outs on several roads and one to two feet of water on low-lying roads from heavy rains as strong to severe thunderstorms crossed the region. Minor crop damage was also noted.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	$35,000	Dozens of trees snapped, uprooted, or downed in Lodi. Powerlines down as well. A small portion of a roof collapsed at a nursing home.
March 2022	Heavy Rain	Lodi	$10,000	Heavy rainfall on a frozen ground lead to high runoff and some basement flooding. A basement wall of a home collapsed in Lodi.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	$8,000	no account filed
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	$5,000	Fallen branches downing power lines.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	$2,000	Large trees and road signs down.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	$2,000	no account filed
October 2019	Flood	Lodi	$1,000	Spring Creek at Lodi reached moderate flood stage, cresting at 7.3 feet the morning of October 2nd. Floodwaters affect Goeres Park including the pool, and Habermann Park including the baseball diamond. Floodwaters approach the Public Works garage.
February 2018	Flood	Lodi	$1,000	Spring Creek in Lodi reached major flood stage, cresting at 7.90 ft. There was widespread flooding in Goeres Park and Habermann Park, including the baseball diamond.
August 2018	Lightning	Lodi	$1,000	A few trees and a powerline down due to a lightning strike.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	$1,000	no account filed
October 2020	Flood	Lodi	$500	Spring Creek at Lodi reached major flood stage, cresting around 7.6 feet the morning of October 23rd. Floodwaters affect Goeres Park including the pool, and water approaches the Public Works garage, and Habermann park including the baseball diamond.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	-	A mesonet site located at Lodi Middle School recorded a 60 mph (52 knot) thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	-	Sheriff deputies reported sporadic damage to large trees from damaging thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 knots (75 mph).
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	-	Measured at Lodi Middle School.
August 2005	Tornado (F0)	Lodi	-	A brief tornado spun up and dissipated at 1710CST about 4.5 miles north-northeast of Lodi, or about 1 mile south of the intersection of CTH CS and Smith Rd., just west of Smith Rd. Only minor vegetative damage was noted by a severe weather spotter in the area at the time. This tornado was rated as F0 with estimated wind speeds of 35-63 knots (40-72 mph).
September 2022	Hail	Lodi	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Lodi	-	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lodi	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Lodi	-	no account filed
February 1999	Hail	Lodi	-	no account filed
August 1997	Flood	Lodi	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Clara F. Bacon House	0.1 miles	2009
Daniel and Nellie Byrns House	0.1 miles	2008
Lodi Downtown Historic District	0.2 miles	2014
Joel M. Pruyn Block	0.2 miles	2008
Job Mills Block	0.2 miles	2008
Lodi Street-Prairie Street Historic District	0.2 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000198 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia County	All 55 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.