George P. Mayer Boathouse

Built in 1920. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Mayer Boathouse is located in Three Lakes, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.”
Wikipedia article George P. Mayer Boathouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · built in 1920.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Mayer, George P., Boathouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 7708 Braeger Rd, Town of Three Lakes, 54562
When was it listed? March 2011
Category. building
Town. Three Lakes town
When was it built? 1920
National Register reference number. 11000115 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of George P. Mayer Boathouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Fireworks	3
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Other causes	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
7 September 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PEAT FIREWORKS
14 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HOLDOVER FIRE
6 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SPIRIT
7 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SPIRIT LAKE POINT FIRE
3 July 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	RUPPLE

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of George P. Mayer Boathouse: 5 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Elton Gensler Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Javen Road Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Little Moccasin Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Maple Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mud Creek Gravel Pit #4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Spirit Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Townline Lake Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida 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
Indianapolis Outing Club	1.3 miles	2004
Reay Boathouse	2.5 miles	2004
Joseph and Augusta Trunck Boathouse	2.6 miles	2008
Three Lakes Rod and Gun Club	2.7 miles	2013
Marshall D. Miller Boathouse	2.8 miles	2008
Jollywood	2.8 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000115 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oneida County	All 20 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.