Palm Tree Road Bridge

Built in 1903. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

From the record

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Fond du Lac County · listed in 2022 · category: Structure · built in 1903.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Palm Tree Rd. over the Sheboygan R., Marshfield, 53079
When was it listed? December 2022
Category. structure
Town. Marshfield town
When was it built? 1903
National Register reference number. 100008451 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

3,892 words

The chapter on Marshfield Town in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, published 1912 names Marshfield. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Marshfield is a full congressional township and is bounded on the north by the town of Calumet, on the west by Calumet and Taycheedah, on the south by Forest and on the east by Sheboygan county. It was organized in 1852 under the name of Kossuth, which it retained for three years, before being changed to Marshfield, the name being given to it by reason of the large tracts of marsh land within its borders. The first settlers were Germans and that nationality still holds the majority in population.

Passage source: Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, published 1912.

The first settler was Stephen Goeser, a German, who came to the town in 1841. He was soon followed by Anton Kramer, John Fuchs and John Loehr. At the first election held in 1852, Joseph Wagner was chairman and Otto Rollmann, clerk. The first child born in the town of Marshfield was Joseph Fuchs, son of John Fuchs, in 1842.

Passage source: Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, published 1912.

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 Marshfield Town - 3,892 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Palm Tree Road Bridge between 1994 and 2019, burning about 59 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
5 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019011
30 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	38
22 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019016
31 October 1994	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 October 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	56 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	MULLET RIVER MARSH FIRE
29 January 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019002

Every fire recorded in Fond du Lac County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Palm Tree Road Bridge: 2 past producers. None of them 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
	Elmer Fuhrmann Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Schroeder Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fond du Lac County

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 miles

Other 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
	St. John the Baptist Catholic Church	7.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100008451 in Record Group 79.
Fond du Lac County	All 51 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.