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One of 60 National Register listings published here for Sheboygan County · listed in 2019 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
MONTGOMERY shipwreck (schooner)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. In Lake Michigan, O.45 miles east of Whistling Straights Golf Course, Mosel
- When was it listed? September 2019
- Category. site
- National Register reference number. 100004377 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
7 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of MONTGOMERY shipwreck (schooner) between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2939 |
| 19 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 3092 |
| 17 August 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2611 |
| 23 April 2018 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1292 |
| 18 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 19 |
| 12 December 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 98 |
| 30 October 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 3486 |
Storms near this property
2 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mosel, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2026: 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Hail | Mosel | - | Picture of one inch hail provided. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Mosel | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALTER B. ALLEN (canaller) Shipwreck | 5.7 miles | 2011 | |
| Washington Elementary School | 5.7 miles | 2017 | |
 | Windway | 6.4 miles | 1988 |
 | SELAH CHAMBERLAIN (bulk carrier) Shipwreck | 6.5 miles | 2019 |
 | Eliza Prange House | 6.6 miles | 2015 |
 | Friendship House | 6.7 miles | 1974 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004377 in Record Group 79. |
| Sheboygan County | All 60 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.