BlockFrom the record
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Vernon County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Hillsboro Condensed Milk Company
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 206 East Madison St., Hillsboro, 54634
- When was it listed? July 2021
- Category. building
- City. Hillsboro city
- National Register reference number. 100006696 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
9,787 wordsThis property stands in Hillsboro City. History of Vernon County, Wisconsin .., published 1884 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 Hillsboro City - 9,787 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hillsboro Condensed Milk Company between 1997 and 2019, burning about 35 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | TOWNSHED RD |
| 4 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 201917 |
| 9 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 201914 |
| 21 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | CO Y |
| 13 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 5.8 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hillsboro Condensed Milk Company: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burr Ridge Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Parker Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Rick Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
36 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 3 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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 2008 | Flood | Hillsboro | $800,000 | Water was reported to be over Highway 80 south of Hillsboro. Unofficially Hillsboro picked up 7.55 inches of rain over the weekend. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $90,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $75,000 | Emergency management reported trees and power lines down in Hillsboro. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $75,000 | Emergency management reported trees down on homes in Hillsboro. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Hillsboro | $40,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Hillsboro | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Hillsboro | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Hillsboro | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Hillsboro | $13,500 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $10,000 | Emergency management reported a tree fallen onto a vehicle near Hillsboro. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down at a cemetery in Hillsboro. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $3,500 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $3,000 | Trees were blown down in Hillsboro. One downed tree took out a light pole. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $2,000 | Several large trees were blown down in Hillsboro. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down in Hillsboro. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $2,000 | Trees were blown down in Hillsboro. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $1,000 | Several large trees were blown down. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $400 | no account filed |
| September 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Hillsboro | - | A funnel cloud was sighted north of Hillsboro. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Hillsboro | - | The COOP observer near Hillsboro measured 4.4 inches of rain. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Hillsboro | - | The COOP observer in Hillsboro measured seven inches of rain. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Hillsboro | - | In Hillsboro, 7 inches of rain fell. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | - | An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred in Hillsboro. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Hillsboro | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Hillsboro | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Hillsboro | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Hillsboro | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Hillsboro | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Hillsboro | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Hillsboro | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Hillsboro | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Hillsboro | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | - | 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 100006696 in Record Group 79. |
| Vernon County | All 12 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.