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One of 36 National Register listings published here for Dodge County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Meissner Store
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. N887-889 State Highway 67, Ashippun, 53036
- When was it listed? November 2024
- Category. building
- Town. Ashippun town
- National Register reference number. 100010954 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
10,793 wordsThe chapter on Ashippun Town in The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing a History of Dodge County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc, published 1880 names Ashippun. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
JOHN T. CURPHE Y, farmer, Sees. 20 and 21 ; P. 0. Ashippun ; born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1842 ; came to Wisconsin at the age of 1 year; the early part of his life was spent in Ashippun; in 1861, he made a trip through the Eastern States, also to England, visiting the home of his father, returning in 1863, when he resumed farming; in 1871, he purchased from his father 160 acres, his present homestead ; he is considered a very successful fiirmer ; raises both stock and grain. He has been Assessor two years. There is a natural spring on his his farm that never goes dry, either winter or summer.
Passage source: The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing a History of Dodge County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc, published 1880.
WILLiIAjfl CURPHE Y, farmer, Sees. 20 and 21 ; P. 0. Ashippun ; born in England in 1815 ; came to Wisconsin in 1844, locating at Ashippun, where he purchased 160 acres, which he afterward sold to his son, John T. Married in 1840, Miss Elizabeth Clark, a native of the Isle of Man ; they had three children, two living. Mr. Curphey was one of the early pioneers of this township, and the first crop of wheat he raised he brought to the Milwaukee market by ox team, taking five or six days for the journey. Democratic in politics.
Passage source: The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing a History of Dodge County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc, published 1880.
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 Ashippun Town - 10,793 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
15 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Meissner Store between 2018 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 June 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 29 |
| 12 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1923 |
| 1 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1831 |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20 |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1817 |
| 7 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 11 |
| 30 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1800131 |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1825 |
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 Meissner Store: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakfield Brick Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Fredericks Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Multhauf Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashippun, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Hail | Ashippun | $3,170,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashippun | $25,000 | Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts up to 56 knots (65 mph) toppled several large trees and damaged some power-lines. |
| July 2020 | Lightning | Ashippun | $15,000 | A house was struck by lightning with a fire affecting the roof and attic. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Ashippun | $7,000 | Hail sizes ranging from 0.5 inch to larger than 2 inches in diameter and lasted about 20 minutes. Wind was generally from the west and south with strong gusts. Damage to vinyl siding and windows. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashippun | $2,000 | Some siding blown off a house in Ashippun. |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashippun | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Flood | Ashippun | $1,000 | Davidson Rd., Harvey Rd., Indian Lane, Follette Rd., Highview Rd., Upham Rd., and Monroe Rd. are closed due to high water. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashippun | - | Small hail was observed during a measured wind gust of 67 MPH. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Ashippun | - | A picture was provided. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashippun | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schoenicke Barn | 3.8 miles | 1979 | |
 | Neosho Village Hall | 5.9 miles | 2018 |
 | Kliese Housebarn | 7.5 miles | 2008 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010954 in Record Group 79. |
| Dodge County | All 36 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.