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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Antoine and Sarah Gordon House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Gordon, Antoine and Sarah, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 97 Cty. Rd. Y, Gordon, 54838
- When was it listed? June 2022
- Category. building
- Town. Gordon town
- National Register reference number. 100007769 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
88 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Antoine and Sarah Gordon House between 1993 and 2019, burning about 519 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 1997 | Other causes | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | DENALI |
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 Antoine and Sarah Gordon House: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Mix Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| N Flowage Dr Pit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| N Flowage Dr Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| N Flowage Dr Pit #3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
15 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gordon, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordon | - | A couple of powerlines were down from the storm. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordon | - | Numerous white spruce and red pine branches were reported down that were around 2 inches in diameter. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordon | - | A photo was received of a downed tree in Gordon. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Gordon | - | The ground was covered with hail. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Gordon | - | The hail fell for about 10 minutes. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordon | - | A tree was blown down near Gordon, WI. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordon | - | Six 12-inch trees were blown down and blocked Highway 35. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Gordon | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Gordon | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Gordon | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Gordon | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Gordon | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordon | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Gordon | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordon | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.D. Thompson Cabin | 3.0 miles | 2022 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007769 in Record Group 79. |
| Douglas County | All 20 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.