Hammond Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3859 Vilas Rd., Cottage Grove, 53527
When was it listed? September 2023
Category. building
Town. Cottage Grove town
National Register reference number. 100009329 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

29 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Hammond Farmstead between 2013 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	14
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
28 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1824118
28 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	239
10 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	STATE ROAD 73 DITCH
3 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1919678
24 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	203
19 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019367
5 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	160
24 July 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	175

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hammond Farmstead: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mccarthy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kampmeier Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Kreuger Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Milwaukee Street Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this property

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottage Grove, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
July 1999	Lightning	Cottage Grove	1 hurt	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Cottage Grove	$5,550,000	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Cottage Grove	$2,000,000	Large hail damage many homes and vehicles, resulting in an estimated 200 claims. Some of the homes that sustained hail damage were just recently repaired due to damage inflicted by the April 13, 2006, hailstorm that dumped hail up to 3 to 4 inches in diameter on a path west to east across Dane County.
August 2006	Lightning	Cottage Grove	$250,000	A home was struck by a lightning bolt, and the resultant fire gutted the home.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cottage Grove	$10,000	The public reported trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph (56 knots) 3 miles west of Cottage Grove.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cottage Grove	$10,000	Large trees down. One tree landed on a home.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cottage Grove	$3,000	Tree damage in Cottage Grove.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cottage Grove	$2,000	Five to eight inch diameter branches snapped off. All blown from south to north.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cottage Grove	$2,000	Scattered tree limbs down.
June 1998	Lightning	Cottage Grove	$1,000	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Cottage Grove	-	Trained spotter reports 2.5 inch diameter hail in Cottage Grove.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cottage Grove	-	A trained spotter reported large tree branches downed from severe thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 50 knots (58 mph).
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cottage Grove	-	Powerful thunderstorms winds knocked down large trees.
June 2006	Hail	Cottage Grove	-	The ground was nearly covered white with hail accumulation.
April 2025	Hail	Cottage Grove	-	no account filed
September 2022	Hail	Cottage Grove	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Cottage Grove	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Cottage Grove	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Cottage Grove	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Cottage Grove	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Cottage Grove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Drohman Cabin	3.1 miles	1981
Waubesa School	4.1 miles	1997
McFarland House	5.1 miles	1988
Edwards-Larson House	5.2 miles	2021
Tompkins-Brindler Mound Group	5.8 miles	2003
Nathaniel W. Dean House	5.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009329 in Record Group 79.
Dane County	All 238 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.