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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Portage County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1867.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Rising Star Flouring Mill
Built in 1867. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 3190 Cty. Rd. Q, Nelsonville, 54407
- When was it listed? May 2018
- Category. building
- Village. Nelsonville village
- When was it built? 1867
- National Register reference number. 100002444 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
132 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Rising Star Flouring Mill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 230 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 were 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 | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | WARD ROAD FIRE |
| 18 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SMOKEY RR FIRE #1 |
| 12 September 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SMOKEY RR FIRE #2 |
| 9 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | FOUNTAIN GROVE HOLDOVER |
| 8 August 2013 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | STOCKTON RR FIRE #9 |
| 7 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.3 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | PAVELSKI BALER FIRE |
| 5 August 2012 | Smoking | 2.1 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY 10 WESTBOUND FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rising Star Flouring Mill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mengel Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nelsonville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nelsonville | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped numerous trees near the town of New Hope. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nelsonville | - | A wet microburst from a thunderstorm produced winds to at least 65 mph. About a half dozen trees were uprooted and another half dozen heavily damaged. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nelsonville | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several one-foot diameter trees north of Amherst. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Nelsonville | - | Penny size hail fell for ten minutes north of Amherst. |
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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hope Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery | 2.7 miles | 2019 | |
 | L. A. Pomeroy House | 3.3 miles | 1992 |
 | Severance-Pipe Farmstead | 7.0 miles | 1993 |
 | Pipe School | 7.0 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002444 in Record Group 79. |
| Portage County | All 22 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.