Lorine Niedecker Cottage

Built in 1946. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1946.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Niedecker, Lorine, Cottage - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. W7307 Blackhawk Island Rd., Sumner, 53538
When was it listed? February 2018
Category. building
Town. Sumner town
When was it built? 1946
National Register reference number. 100002106 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

1,406 words

This property stands in Sumner Town. The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1879 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Sumner Town - 1,406 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lorine Niedecker Cottage between 2000 and 2020, burning about 20 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
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	132
6 April 2000	Smoking	3.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	107
18 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	72

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Lorine Niedecker Cottage: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Poyers Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Fort Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Poyers Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Albert and Mary Shekey House	1.6 miles	2015
Jones Dairy Farm	3.0 miles	1978
Merchants Avenue Historic District	3.5 miles	1986
Arthur R. Hoard House	3.5 miles	1982
Helmut Ajango House	3.6 miles	2022
Main Street Historic District	3.6 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002106 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 52 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.