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One of 153 National Register listings published here for Waukesha County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Muskego State Graded School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. S75 W17476 Janesville Rd., Muskego, 53150
- When was it listed? October 2019
- Category. building
- City. Muskego city
- National Register reference number. 100004527 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
38 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Muskego State Graded School between 2010 and 2020, burning about 394 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 453 |
| 9 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 186 |
| 4 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 407 |
| 7 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2265 |
| 6 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2244 |
| 4 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 140 |
| 30 July 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 417 |
| 15 July 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 367 |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Muskego State Graded School: 6 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buege Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Jack S Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Kohler Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Park View Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pit 14 and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Valley Blacktop | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Valley Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Valley Pit Hillview S & G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
23 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Muskego, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2006 | Lightning | Muskego | 1 hurt | A women was struck by lightning in a parking lot of a business. She was treated at a local hospital and released. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muskego | $200,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muskego | $10,000 | Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts toppled large trees and generated tree debris that brought down some power lines. |
| September 1997 | Lightning | Muskego | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muskego | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Lightning | Muskego | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Lightning | Muskego | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Lightning | Muskego | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muskego | - | An estimated wind gust of 60 mph from a trained spotter. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muskego | - | Estimated wind gust from citizen. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muskego | - | Law enforcement officials reported a tree blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph (52 knots) near the intersection of Big Bend Road and North Lake Drive. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muskego | - | A severe thunderstorm produced damaging wind gusts estimated up to 80 mph (70 knots). Trees were knocked down and tree branches were broken along the path of the strong winds. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muskego | - | Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled several large trees. A few pieces of siding was removed from a home. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muskego | - | A trained spotter estimated a wind gust of 65 knots and a few large trees uprooted or broken. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muskego | - | Law enforcement officials reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across the northern quarter of the community. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Muskego | - | The Muskego Police Department reported 3/4 inch hail fell in the city. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muskego | - | Several large trees were uprooted by powerful, straight-line thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muskego | - | Trees down. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Muskego | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Muskego | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Muskego | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Muskego | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Muskego | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Carl and Therese Schauwitzer House | 1.2 miles | 2013 |
| Weston's Antique Apple Orchard | 2.9 miles | 1996 | |
 | Freewill Baptist Church | 2.9 miles | 1998 |
 | Haseltine Cobblestone House | 4.0 miles | 1980 |
 | Reformed Presbyterian Church of Vernon | 4.4 miles | 1999 |
 | Gredler-Gramins House | 5.8 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004527 in Record Group 79. |
| Waukesha County | All 153 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.