BlockFrom the record
One of 50 National Register listings published here for Walworth County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Carl and Clara Bucholtz Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- Listed as. Bucholtz, Carl and Clara, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. W425 Miller Rd., East Troy, 53105
- When was it listed? November 2018
- Category. building
- Town. East Troy town
- National Register reference number. 100003104 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
20,792 wordsThe chapter on East Troy Town in History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin...and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution.., published 1882 names East Troy. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
East Troy, the extreme northeastern town in Walworth County, and known in the Govornraental Survey as " Town 4, Eange 18," was organized by act of Legislature Mai'ch 21, 1843. From 1838, the time when the five original towns of the county were formed, up to this date, the territory' comprised in the present towns of Troy and East Troy (Towns 4. Ranges 1 7 and 18 east) constituted a single town, known as the town of Troy.
Passage source: History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin...and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution.., published 1882.
Honey Creek enters the town of East Troy on Section 80, and runs through the entire town from west to east, passing through Sections 30 and 29; the northwest corner of 28, and southeast corner of 21 ; across 22, 23, and to the eastern verge of 24, where it makes a sharp bend and runs south to about the center of Section 25, where it leaves the town.
Passage source: History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin...and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution.., published 1882.
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 East Troy Town - 20,792 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
10 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Carl and Clara Bucholtz Farmstead between 2018 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. None 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 | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 79 |
| 7 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 67 |
| 20 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 42 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | TICHIGAN |
| 13 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1900076 |
| 1 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 31 |
| 31 March 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 105 |
| 1 December 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 77 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | TICHIGAN MARSH |
| 4 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20113 |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Carl and Clara Bucholtz Farmstead: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alby Pit Number 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Alby Pit Number 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Army Lake Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Meyers Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Oakes Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Racine County Hwy Dept Frost Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rochester Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Swoboda Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Wuttke Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
39 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Troy, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 10 injuries. 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 2003 | Lightning | East Troy | 8 hurt | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Lightning | East Troy | 2 hurt | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $150,000 | Powerful, hurricane-force thunderstorms winds knocked down many trees, power-lines, and an old silo. Additionally, part of a roof of a barn was ripped off, a concrete wall of a machine shed was blown in, and 2 semi tractor-trailers were blown over on Interstate-43. Peak wind gusts were estimated at 78 knots (90 mph), but this number could be 9 knots (10 mph) too low or too high. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $25,000 | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $20,000 | no account filed |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $10,000 | Numerous trees, branches, and powerlines down in East Troy. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $7,000 | The Walworth County 911 Call Center received reports of trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph (52 knots) in East Troy. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Flash Flood | East Troy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $4,000 | Multiple trees were downed by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $3,000 | Trees down. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $1,000 | An uprooted tree. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | $600 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | East Troy | - | The large hail shredded the leaves off the trees. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | - | A trained spotter reported large tree branches knocked down by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated to be as high as 60 mph (52 knots). |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | - | Law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines were blown down in multiple locations in East Troy due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | - | Tree damage from near Beulah Station (east of city of East Troy) to Honey Creek was noted by a trained spotter. Based on the size of the limbs and trees blown down they estimated winds in excess of 52 knots (60 mph). |
| May 2025 | Hail | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Funnel Cloud | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Troy | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buena Vista House | 4.3 miles | 1978 | |
 | Smith and Meadows Store Buildings | 4.3 miles | 1993 |
 | Horace Loomis House | 4.3 miles | 1974 |
 | Sheboygan Light, Power and Railway Company Car #26 | 4.5 miles | 2006 |
 | John and Margaret Bell House | 4.9 miles | 1994 |
 | James Jesse Strang House | 6.0 miles | 1974 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003104 in Record Group 79. |
| Walworth County | All 50 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.