Downsville Lodge No. 1961 I.O.O.F.

Built in 1908 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Dunn County · listed in 2017 · category: Building · built in 1908, Romanesque Revival architecture.

Sources: 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. E4541 Cty Rd. C, Dunn, 54751
When was it listed? January 2017
Category. building
Town. Dunn town
When was it built? 1908
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 100000517 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Downsville Lodge No. 1961 I.O.O.F. between 2012 and 2019, burning about 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1081
25 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	861
24 November 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2820
15 October 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	DUNNVILLE WA FIRE

Every fire recorded in Dunn County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Downsville Lodge No. 1961 I.O.O.F.: 5 occurrences, 5 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 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
Downsville Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dunnville Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Little Elk Creek Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Robert Sol Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Wolf Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Irvington Dolomite Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Knights Creek Dolomite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Little Elk Creek Shale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Markham Shale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Red Cedar River Limestone Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Dunn 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

5 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
Menomonie Downtown Historic District	7.0 miles	1986
Menomonie Omaha Depot	7.0 miles	2018
Mabel Tainter Memorial Building	7.0 miles	1974
Louis Smith Tainter House	7.2 miles	1974
Evergreen Cemetery	8.0 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000517 in Record Group 79.
Dunn County	All 7 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.