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One of 9 National Register listings published here for Forest County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Connor Lumber and Land Company Store
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. 4894 Mill St., Laona, 54541
- When was it listed? November 2019
- Category. building
- Town. Laona town
- National Register reference number. 100004667 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
42 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Connor Lumber and Land Company Store between 1992 and 2016, burning about 49 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | JUNCTION |
| 18 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.4 acres | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | OLD FARM |
| 1 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | MIKO'S |
| 13 August 2009 | Smoking | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | HIGHWAY 8 WEST |
| 10 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | CONNER FARM |
| 7 July 2009 | Smoking | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | SHOEMAKER |
| 11 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | WEST SHORE |
| 9 June 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | BLACKWELL |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Connor Lumber and Land Company Store: 9 occurrences, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birch Lake Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Camp Twenty Creek Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Camp Twenty Creek Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kokots Creek Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Little Birch Lake Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Rat River Gravel Deposit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Rat River Gravel Deposit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Round Lake Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Scattered Rice Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Swanson Creek Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
18 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laona, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Hail | Laona | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Laona | - | Penny size hail fell in Laona. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Laona | - | Ping pong size hail fell in Laona. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laona | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines across Forest County. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laona | - | Thunderstorms produced strong wind gusts that knocked down dozens of trees around Laona. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laona | - | Thunderstorm downburst winds snapped 15 to 20 trees across the county. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laona | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laona | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laona | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laona | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laona | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laona | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laona | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Laona | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laona | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Laona | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Laona | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laona | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Camp Five Farmstead | 1.5 miles | 1996 |
| Otter Spring House | 7.0 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004667 in Record Group 79. |
| Forest County | All 9 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.