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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Portage County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
New Hope Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1410 Cty. Rd. T, New Hope, 54407
- When was it listed? September 2019
- Category. building
- Town. New Hope town
- National Register reference number. 100004342 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
89 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of New Hope Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery between 1992 and 2018, burning about 108 acres in total. 2 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 | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SMOKEY RR FIRE #1 |
| 7 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.3 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | PAVELSKI BALER FIRE |
| 28 August 1998 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 2013 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | TRANSIT FIRE |
| 14 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
1 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hope, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2021: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Hope | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Amherst Junction. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Rising Star Flouring Mill | 2.7 miles | 2018 |
 | L. A. Pomeroy House | 4.5 miles | 1992 |
 | Severance-Pipe Farmstead | 7.3 miles | 1993 |
 | Pipe School | 7.4 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004342 in Record Group 79. |
| Portage County | All 22 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.
- 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.