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One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wauwatosa Cemetery Chapel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- Address. 2445 Wauwatosa Ave., Wauwatosa, 53213
- When was it listed? June 2023
- Category. building
- City. Wauwatosa city
- Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 100008855 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
40 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Wauwatosa Cemetery Chapel between 2014 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1778249 |
| 26 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2002767 |
| 7 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1767699 |
| 7 August 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1767727 |
| 25 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2005040 |
| 13 August 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1769924 |
| 12 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1806123 |
| 11 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1806070 |
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 Wauwatosa Cemetery Chapel: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, REE, Thorium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerac Inc. | REE, Thorium | Past Producer | ||
| Own Crews | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Own Crews | Stone | Unknown |
Storms near this property
29 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wauwatosa, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1998 | Flash Flood | Wauwatosa | 1 hurt, $22,140,000 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Flash Flood | Wauwatosa | $100,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Flash Flood | Wauwatosa | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauwatosa | $50,000 | A trained spotter reported numerous trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 70 mph (61 knots) along a path from 2 miles west of Wauwatosa to just east of Cudahy. A downed power line sparked a house fire 3 miles southwest of downtown Milwaukee. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauwatosa | $30,000 | A swath of significant tree damage. Approximately 80 trees damaged or downed. |
| April 2026 | Flash Flood | Wauwatosa | $25,000 | Social media pictures and videos of cars stuck in flooded roads in downtown Milwaukee. DOT cameras show a few locations with cars stuck in water at highway underpasses. |
| June 2001 | Lightning | Wauwatosa | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Lightning | Wauwatosa | $20,000 | Lightning struck a home and started a fire that damage the roof. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauwatosa | $10,000 | A large tree uprooted and fallen onto car. |
| August 2002 | Flash Flood | Wauwatosa | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauwatosa | - | Public estimates winds at 60-65 MPH. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Wauwatosa | - | The large hail resulted in broken windows, dented vehicles, and extensive damage to trees and shrubs. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauwatosa | - | Strong winds with an intensifying storm over Milwaukee County. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Wauwatosa | - | Estimated 55 mph winds with the nickel size hail. Small tree limbs down and some street flooding due to 0.75 to 1.00 inches of rain in 30 minutes. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauwatosa | - | Large trees were either uprooted or split by powerful thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauwatosa | - | Powerful thunderstorm winds knocked down large trees. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauwatosa | - | Widespread large trees down. Measured peak gust on UW-Milwaukee campus. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Wauwatosa | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Wauwatosa | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Wauwatosa | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Wauwatosa | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Wauwatosa | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Wauwatosa | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Wauwatosa | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Wauwatosa | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Wauwatosa | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Flood | Wauwatosa | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Wauwatosa | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Wauwatosa | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | J. H. Fiebing House | 0.3 miles | 1985 |
 | Wauwatosa Arcade Building | 0.4 miles | 1997 |
 | Pearl C. Norton House | 0.5 miles | 1985 |
| Wauwatosa Avenue Residential Historic District | 0.5 miles | 2012 | |
 | Lowell Damon House | 0.5 miles | 1972 |
 | Kneeland-Walker House | 0.6 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008855 in Record Group 79. |
| Milwaukee County | All 300 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.