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One of 65 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Franciscan Publishers Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 165 East Pulaski St., Pulaski, 54162
- When was it listed? December 2020
- Category. building
- Village. Pulaski village
- National Register reference number. 100005900 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
25 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Franciscan Publishers Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 June 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 June 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 18074 |
| 17 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY 32 LAWNMOWER FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Franciscan Publishers Building: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKeefry & Sons,Inc | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Peters Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Pittsfield Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry Road Dolomite Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pulaski, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Pulaski | - | A tornado touched down at 2:14 pm CDT just northwest of Pulaski, moved east across the north side of the city, then dissipated about 1 mile east of Pulaski at 2:22 pm CDT. The tornado produced damage to trees (DI 28, DOD 2,4). Total path length is estimated to be 2.27 miles long, with a width of 75 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 70 mph. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | - | A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 64 mph in Pulaski. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree branches and uprooted two trees. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Pulaski | - | A thunderstorm dropped golf ball size hail as it passed through Pulaski. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Pulaski | - | Heavy rain fell over extreme northwest Brown County, causing flash flooding in Pulaski where a storm total of 3.97 inches of rain fell. Some roads in the area flooded, including State Highway 32, and a small creek that is normally about 1 foot deep was flowing at a depth of 8 or 9 feet. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Pulaski | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Pulaski | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Pulaski | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Pulaski | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005900 in Record Group 79. |
| Brown County | All 65 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.