BlockFrom the record
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Dodge County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Neosho Village Hall
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. 115 S Schuyler St., Neosho, 53059
- When was it listed? September 2018
- Category. building
- Village. Neosho village
- National Register reference number. 100002976 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
257 wordsThe chapter on Neosho Village in The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880 names Neosho. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The village of Neosho is situated on portions of Sections 29 and 30, of Rubicon Township, and is a quiet, healthy, and thriving every-day village, with a population ranging somewhere in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty. It has a goodly number of humming mills, busy shops, business-like stores, and comfortable homes, to say nothing of honest men and fair women, in whose features are blended the rosy tints of health and beauty.
Passage source: The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880.
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 Neosho Village - 257 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
11 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Neosho Village Hall between 2018 and 2020, burning about 24 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 366 |
| 18 June 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 29 |
| 12 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1923 |
| 1 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1831 |
| 6 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 403 |
| 30 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 223 |
| 24 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20 |
| 24 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1822 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Neosho Village Hall: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multhauf Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sanitary Transfer & Landfll Inc Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neosho, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neosho | $1,000 | Several 3 inch diameter branches down. |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Neosho | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Neosho | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neosho | - | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ferdinand Schulze House | 4.7 miles | 1996 |
 | John Hustis House | 4.9 miles | 1983 |
| Schoenicke Barn | 5.0 miles | 1979 | |
| Meissner Store | 5.9 miles | 2024 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002976 in Record Group 79. |
| Dodge County | All 36 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.