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One of 60 National Register listings published here for La Crosse County · listed in 2022 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Bangor Commercial Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- Address. 1501-1630 Commercial St., 1515-1601 Bangor St., 105-106 16th Ave. North, Bangor, 54614
- When was it listed? October 2022
- Category. district
- Village. Bangor village
- National Register reference number. 100008252 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
7 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bangor Commercial Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14 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 | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 81420 |
| 17 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2020052 |
| 8 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 40819 |
| 28 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2018035 |
| 24 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 42418 |
| 8 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 110820 |
| 15 November 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | 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 Bangor Commercial Historic District: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangor Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Klos Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Pierce Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bangor, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Hail | Bangor | $500,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bangor | $100,000 | Public reported tree fallen upon house in Bangor. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Bangor | $50,000 | Public reported baseball sized hail near Bangor. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Bangor | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Bangor | $40,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Bangor | $25,000 | Law enforcement reported ping pong sized hail near Bangor. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Bangor | $20,000 | Heavy rains caused Dutch Creek to quickly go out of its banks and take out a pedestrian bridge in Veterans Memorial Park and a snowmobile bridge. The pedestrian bridge was destroyed while the snowmobile bridge was designed to be moveable and only sustained minor damage. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bangor | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of State Highways 162 and 16 north of Bangor. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bangor | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Bangor | - | Heavy rain caused a mudslide that blocked both lanes of traffic on State Highway 162 south of Bangor. |
| July 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Bangor | - | A short lived funnel cloud was observed by people in the Town of Burns. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Bangor | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Bangor | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Derwood and Myrtle Trimbell House | 4.4 miles | 2022 | |
| Hamlin Garland House | 4.6 miles | 1971 | |
 | Palmer Brother's Octagons | 4.7 miles | 1979 |
 | Mindoro Cut | 7.6 miles | 2007 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008252 in Record Group 79. |
| La Crosse County | All 60 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.