Main Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 2019 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 100-225 E. Main St., 102 & 200-205 W. Main St., 103-105 S. 2nd St., and 102 S. 3rd St., Mount Horeb, 53572
When was it listed? March 2019
Category. district
Village. Mount Horeb village
National Register reference number. 100003457 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Main Street Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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	18
Arson/incendiarism	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Other causes	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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Main Street Historic District: 4 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Lead, Zinc. 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	Recorded
Brighams Mine	Lead, Zinc	Unknown	Galena
General Silica Division Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Henderson Lime Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Jensen Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Mickelson Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Reilly Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Ringgenberg Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Swenson Quarry	Stone	Unknown

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
Mt. Horeb Opera Block	0.1 miles	1989
Hoff Department Store	0.1 miles	1989
Henry L. and Sarah Dahle House	0.2 miles	2003
Herman B. and Anne Marie Dahle House	0.3 miles	2003
Mount Horeb Public School	0.7 miles	2010
Gonstead Clinic of Chiropractic	0.9 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003457 in Record Group 79.
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.