BlockFrom the record
One of 51 National Register listings published here for Outagamie County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Thern Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- Address. 425 East Fairview Drive, New London, 54961
- When was it listed? January 2024
- Category. building
- City. New London city
- National Register reference number. 100009774 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
58 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Thern Farmstead between 1994 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 1 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 | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | MERGER FIRE |
| 2 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 July 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | POPPYS ROCK |
| 15 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HIGHWAY 54 DITCHLINE |
| 11 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HIGHWAY 54 DITCHLINE TWO |
| 15 June 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.2 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | POPPY'S ROCK |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Thern Farmstead: 8 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Creek Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Turney Hill Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| A Matz Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| B Duch Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Finger Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Givens Road Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Mary Lemke Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Murphy Construction Company | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| New London Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| R Lathrop Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hortonville Community Hall | 6.5 miles | 1981 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009774 in Record Group 79. |
| Outagamie 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.