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One of 52 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Helmut Ajango House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Ajango, Helmut, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 825 East St., Fort Atkinson, 53538
- When was it listed? July 2022
- Category. building
- City. Fort Atkinson city
- National Register reference number. 100007885 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
6 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Helmut Ajango House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 244 |
| 2 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 132 |
| 13 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 144 |
| 22 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 107 |
| 26 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 56 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 72 |
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 Helmut Ajango House: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poyers Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Schuth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Fort Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Poyers Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Atkinson, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Atkinson | - | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Merchants Avenue Historic District | 0.5 miles | 1986 |
 | Arthur R. Hoard House | 0.5 miles | 1982 |
 | Fort Atkinson Water Tower | 0.6 miles | 2005 |
 | Eli May House | 0.6 miles | 1972 |
 | Fort Atkinson Club | 0.7 miles | 2017 |
 | Main Street Historic District | 0.8 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007885 in Record Group 79. |
| Jefferson County | All 52 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.