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One of 60 National Register listings published here for Sheboygan County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Washington Elementary School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1238 Geele Ave., Sheboygan, 53083
- When was it listed? February 2017
- Category. building
- City. Sheboygan city
- Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
- National Register reference number. 100000680 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
14 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Washington Elementary School between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 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 | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 3762 |
| 12 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 3283 |
| 4 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1310 |
| 10 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1518 |
| 1 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1713 |
| 3 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1066 |
| 29 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1371 |
| 23 April 2018 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1292 |
Storms near this property
37 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheboygan, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flood, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Sheboygan | $40,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $40,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Lightning | Sheboygan | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Sheboygan | $20,000 | A trained spotter reported 3 feet of water over South Business Drive between Riverdale Avenue and Stahl Road in the town of Wilson 5 miles south-southwest of Sheboygan. Another trained spotter reported street flooding on the south side of the city of Sheboygan near the intersection of Weeden Creek road and 10th Street. The flooding damaged the contents of flooded basements and washed out gravel shoulders of roads. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flood | Sheboygan | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $6,000 | Scattered tree limbs down in Sheboygan including on a large van. A few photos provided. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Sheboygan | $5,000 | Street flooding on the south side of Sheboygan, including removed manhole covers from flooding sewers. Pictures of streets and yards flooded on the south side. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $5,000 | A barn door was blown off and items were blown out of the barn. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $5,000 | Winds from a severe thunderstorm lifted a 36 by 24 foot roof off from a warehouse in Sheboygan. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $4,000 | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $3,000 | Power poles broken and 3 inch diameter branches down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $2,000 | A large tree snapped off and landing on power lines. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Sheboygan | $2,000 | The Sheboygan River reached moderate flood stage, cresting at 11.07 feet the morning of May 18th. About 3 miles west of Sheboygan Airport, Woodland Road is flooded and closed between Rio Road and Willow Road due to the flooding of the Sheboygan River. Sections of Alpine Road and Meadowlark Road in the Sheboygan Falls area are flooded and closed. Floodwaters affect Kiwanis and Esslingen Parks in Sheboygan. Other roads and low lying areas are flooded in closed due to areal flooding from the several inches of rain that had fallen. |
| October 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Sheboygan | $1,000 | Street flooding in Sheboygan especially on and near 14th street from Geele Ave. to Indiana Ave. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Lightning | Sheboygan | $500 | no account filed |
| March 2026 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | Pictured provided of one inch hail. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | Large hail the size of pennys to quarters covered the ground white just northwest of the city limits of Sheboygan. No damage was noted. As the storm eventually moved through the city of Sheboygan it dumped heavy rains of 0.81 inches in about 45 minutes. Water accumulated on some roads to a depth of 3 to 5 inches. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | - | Measured by the Fox TV-6 school network site at North High School. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Heavy Rain | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| November 2003 | Heavy Rain | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Heavy Rain | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Flood | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Flood | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheboygan | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Eliza Prange House | 1.0 miles | 2015 |
 | Henry and Henriette Roth House | 1.1 miles | 1993 |
 | Friendship House | 1.1 miles | 1974 |
 | Garton Toy Company | 1.1 miles | 2000 |
 | Sheboygan Theater | 1.1 miles | 1999 |
 | Downtown Churches Historic District | 1.1 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100000680 in Record Group 79. |
| Sheboygan County | All 60 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.
- 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.