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One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 2021 · category: Structure · built in 1932.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Potawatomi State Park Observation Tower
Built in 1932. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 3740 County PD, Nasewaupee, 54235
- When was it listed? February 2021
- Category. structure
- Town. Nasewaupee town
- When was it built? 1932
- National Register reference number. 100006108 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
24 wordsThis property stands in Nasewaupee Town. History Of Door County, published 1881 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Nasewaupee Town - 24 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
11 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Potawatomi State Park Observation Tower between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 134 |
| 5 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 91 |
| 16 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 610 |
| 17 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 497 |
| 30 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 440 |
| 30 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 439 |
| 29 April 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 71 |
| 28 April 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 63 |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Potawatomi State Park Observation Tower: 5 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adamski Fisher Limestone Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Eliason Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| County Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Worefl Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Elliason Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Jutting Point Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Kiehnau Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| The Reef Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Walker Road Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sherwood Point Light Station | 1.1 miles | 1984 |
 | JOYS (Shipwreck) | 2.6 miles | 2007 |
 | Bullhead Point Historical and Archeological District | 2.8 miles | 2003 |
| ADVANCE shipwreck (Barge) | 3.5 miles | 2019 | |
| PRIDE Shipwreck (Schooner) | 3.7 miles | 2024 | |
 | Sturgeon Bay Post Office | 3.8 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006108 in Record Group 79. |
| Door County | All 68 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.