BlockFrom the record
One of 153 National Register listings published here for Waukesha County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Visitation Convent Complex
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
The listing
- Address. 13105 Watertown Plank Rd., Elm Grove, 53122
- When was it listed? May 2011
- Category. building
- Village. Elm Grove village
- National Register reference number. 11000311 - 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
47 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Visitation Convent Complex between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. None 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 | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1803041 |
| 26 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2002767 |
| 31 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2990 |
| 25 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2005040 |
| 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 | 1806080 |
| 11 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1806070 |
| 1 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1803975 |
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 Visitation Convent Complex: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this property
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elm Grove, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Lightning | Elm Grove | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Lightning | Elm Grove | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Lightning | Elm Grove | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Elm Grove | $5,000 | Heavy rain from strong to severe thunderstorms that moved across the region produced flash flooding from 3 to 4-inch rainfall that fell in only a couple of hours. All of the I-94 ramps in Brookfield were closed for a time due to high water. Water covered Sunset Drive at a railroad intersection about 1 mile southwest of Waukesha. Trained spotters reported 2 feet of water flowing through the intersection of Calhoun Rd and Beloit Rd., as well as Overland Trail near Brookfield Rd. in New Berlin. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elm Grove | $1,000 | Tree damage on the corner of Elmhurst Parkway. |
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | Elm Grove | - | Two feet of water at the intersection of Ponoma Road and Clearwater Drive along with urban street flooding throughout the area. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Elm Grove | - | Hail lasted 5 minutes. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Elm Grove | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elm Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Flood | Elm Grove | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dousman Inn | 1.7 miles | 1979 |
 | Enoch Gardner and Mary Caroline Koch Needham House | 1.8 miles | 2000 |
| George H. and Frances Daubner House | 2.5 miles | 2022 | |
 | George Lawrence Jr. Clarke House | 4.3 miles | 1995 |
 | Gredler-Gramins House | 5.8 miles | 1980 |
 | Hadfield Company Lime Kilns | 7.1 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 11000311 in Record Group 79. |
| Waukesha County | All 153 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.