Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
“Byron was a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Oostburg, Wisconsin, United States. In 2009 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Byron shipwreck, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 60 National Register listings published here for Sheboygan County · listed in 2009 · category: Site.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Byron (schooner) Shipwreck in 2018, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1119 |
| 19 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 897 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oostburg, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Oostburg | $150,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oostburg | $100,000 | Barn reported down with horses inside northeast of Oostburg. A roof antenna and weather station south of Sheboygan were damaged by the wind gusts. Tree and power-line damage around the city of Sheboygan where about 12,000 customers were without power. City work crews in Sheboygan had about 200 locations across the city where tree debris had to be cleaned up. Clean-up and overtime costs were unknown, but were probably substantial. Several homes had trees leaning onto roofs, and and least one vehicle was damaged when a tree fell on it. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oostburg | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Heavy Rain | Oostburg | - | A quick 2 to 3 inches of rain led to street flooding in Oostburg and Cedar Grove. There was standing water on I-43 off ramps near Cedar Grove. Up to a foot of standing water on some city streets and some basement flooding. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oostburg | - | County Sheriff deputies reported tree damage due to thunderstorm wind gusts along a path from Oostburg to the city of Sheboygan. The Sheboygan C-MAN observation site at the harbor recorded a 49 knot (56 mph) wind gust at 5 pm CDT. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Oostburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Oostburg | - | no account filed |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADVANCE (schooner) Shipwreck | 1.5 miles | 2023 | |
 | ATLANTA (steam screw) Shipwreck | 5.4 miles | 2017 |
| HETTY TAYLOR (shipwreck) | 5.5 miles | 2005 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09000368 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Sheboygan County | All 60 listed properties in this county. |
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