Charles T. and Gertrude Rietz House

Built in 1903. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Sheboygan County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1903.

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.
Listed as. Rietz, Charles T. and Gertrude, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. W6582 State Trunk Hwy. 144, Silver Creek, 53075
When was it listed? July 2018
Category. building
Town. Sherman town
When was it built? 1903
National Register reference number. 100002649 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Charles T. and Gertrude Rietz House between 2014 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 July 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2183
31 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Leopold Wetland Management District	BATAVIA 2
15 June 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19017
6 May 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Leopold Wetland Management District	BATAVIA
29 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	755
26 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	754
26 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1330
15 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1178

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan 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 Charles T. and Gertrude Rietz House: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Clump Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hartman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Southwest Area Operation	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this property

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver Creek, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Silver Creek	$4,000	Trees 2.5 to 3 feet in diameter blown down and blocking the intersection of Highway 28 and Highway 144.

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Gooseville Mill/Grist Mill	2.1 miles	1984
	St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church	6.3 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002649 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.
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.