South Broadway Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 101-129 (odd only) S. Broadway, De Pere, 54115
When was it listed? January 2010
Category. district
City. De Pere city
National Register reference number. 09001272 - 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

23 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of South Broadway Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	201556
8 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	389
24 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2008903
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	181179
5 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	181401
25 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2007745
28 June 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	201324
28 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1835524

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of South Broadway Historic District: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Butnick Quarry #4	Stone	Unknown
De Pere Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Decleen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Boulanger Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Boulanger Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ira Nickel Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Leo Scray Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Leo Scray Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Skalecki Dolomite Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this property

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names De Pere, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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 2025	Lightning	De Pere	$40,000	Lightning struck an apartment building in De Pere causing electrical damage and a hole in the roof where the lightning hit the building. The lightning produced around $40,000 in damage and displaced 24 residents.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	De Pere	$30,000	no account filed
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	De Pere	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees that caused damage to several homes on the south side of De Pere.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	De Pere	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed large tree branches. One of the branches crushed the roof of a car.
September 2005	Tornado (F0)	De Pere	$5,000	no account filed
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	De Pere	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in De Pere.
May 2023	Hail	De Pere	-	Nickel size hail fell in De Pere.
September 2023	Hail	De Pere	-	Quarter size hail fell near De Pere.
April 2022	Hail	De Pere	-	Quarter size hail fell in De Pere.
April 2022	Hail	De Pere	-	Penny size hail fell near De Pere.
April 2022	Hail	De Pere	-	Quarter size hail fell near De Pere.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	De Pere	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees across southern Brown County, including the De Pere area.
June 2012	Hail	De Pere	-	Thunderstorms produced dime to nickel size hail near De Pere.
June 2006	Hail	De Pere	-	no account filed
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	De Pere	-	no account filed
July 2003	Flash Flood	De Pere	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	De Pere	-	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	De Pere	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	De Pere	-	no account filed
June 1998	Lightning	De Pere	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
C. A. Lawton Company	under 500 feet	1992
Steckart and Falck Double Block	under 500 feet	2011
Julius Krause Store Building	0.1 miles	2014
Union House Hotel	0.1 miles	2003
De Pere Lock and Dam Historic District	0.2 miles	1993
John Baeten Store	0.2 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09001272 in Record Group 79.
Brown County	All 65 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.