Mount Horeb Public School

Built in 1918 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Mount Horeb Public School is located in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.”
Wikipedia article Mount Horeb Public School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1918, Prairie School architecture, by Law, Law & Potter, Claude and Starck.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 207 Academy St, Mount Horeb, 53572
When was it listed? May 2010
Category. building
Village. Mount Horeb village
When was it built? 1918
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture, modern architecture
Architect. Law, Law & Potter, Claude and Starck
National Register reference number. 10000298 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Mount Horeb Public School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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	16
Arson/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
25 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18-2833
22 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19321
22 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 June 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19250
8 May 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ANDREWS LANE
7 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18-1226
7 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18-1228

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mount Horeb Public School: 3 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
General Silica Division Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jensen Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Mickelson Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Henderson Lime Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Reilly Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Ringgenberg Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Dane 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
Gonstead Clinic of Chiropractic	0.4 miles	2023
Henry L. and Sarah Dahle House	0.5 miles	2003
Main Street Historic District	0.7 miles	2019
Hoff Department Store	0.7 miles	1989
Mt. Horeb Opera Block	0.8 miles	1989
Herman B. and Anne Marie Dahle House	0.9 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000298 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane County	All 238 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.