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One of 38 National Register listings published here for Manitowoc County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Kiel Mill
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 11 East Fremont St., Kiel, 53042
- When was it listed? February 2022
- Category. building
- City. Kiel city
- National Register reference number. 100007129 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
5 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kiel Mill between 2018 and 2019, burning under an acre 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 5056 |
| 7 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 5122 |
| 14 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 5123 |
| 21 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 5115 |
| 30 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 4962 |
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 Kiel Mill: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elkhart Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kiel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| L. Fries Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Neils Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Schnelle Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| School Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Wiskerchen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Witt Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Zimmerman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
18 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kiel, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Kiel | $75,000 | The tornado that began just inside the Calumet County border near Meggers Road moved into Manitowoc County and destroyed a barn (DI 1, DOD 5,6). The tornado produced sporadic tree damage along its path and dissipated less than two minutes after it formed. |
| June 1998 | Lightning | Kiel | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiel | $3,000 | An isolated thunderstorm moved across southwest Manitowoc County near Kiel and produced a wind gust over 60 mph. The wind knocked over two utility poles, blew a trampoline 500 feet from its yard, ripped off the railings from a backyard deck, and flattened a grass field. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiel | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiel | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiel | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped a tree and uprooted another tree in Kiel. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Kiel | - | Quarter size hail fell near Kiel. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiel | - | Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees and power lines in Kiel. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiel | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in the Kiel area. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiel | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees around Kiel. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | Kiel | - | Several rounds of heavy rain that moved across Manitowoc County produced 3.00 inches of rainfall in Kiel. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiel | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down in the town of Kiel. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Kiel | - | An isolated thunderstorm produced a brief period of half-dollar size hail. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiel | - | High winds from thunderstorms downed trees and power lines. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Kiel | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Kiel | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Kiel | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kiel | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Carl Gottlieb Heins House | 0.3 miles | 1998 |
 | Loreto Shrine Chapel | 7.7 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007129 in Record Group 79. |
| Manitowoc County | All 38 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.