Frey School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Frey School building is an early one-room school built between 1870 and 1881 in Roxbury, Wisconsin. The school was added to the State Register of Historic Places in 2010 and to the National Register of Historic Places the following year.”
Wikipedia article Frey School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

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.
Address. 8847 Co. Rd. Y, Roxbury, 53583
When was it listed? July 2011
Category. building
Town. Roxbury town
National Register reference number. 11000461 - 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Frey School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 239 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
Debris and open burning	35
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TRUSSEL SMOKE
5 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SNUFFYS
27 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BREUNIG RD
24 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	MATCH BAG
2 July 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 July 2007	Recreation and ceremony	4.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 June 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Frey School: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Marxville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Pulvermacher Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roxbury, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Roxbury	$100,000	Firefighters reported numerous trees, power lines and some power poles downed by thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 75 mph (65 knots), along a 5-mile wide path from 2 miles northwest of Roxbury to 2.5 miles east of Marshall. An old barn was completely blown down; a shed was moved 4 feet off of it's foundation; and roof shingles, siding and downspouts were torn off of a couple of homes in the village of Dane.
June 2024	Flash Flood	Roxbury	$30,000	Street and road flooding in northern Dane County including some road damage. Some homes affected by flooding in Windsor, Medina, and Sun Prairie. A culvert failed in Windsor. Lowland flooding throughout the area.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Roxbury	$15,000	no account filed
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Roxbury	$3,000	A swath of trees down.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Roxbury	$3,000	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Roxbury	$2,000	Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts to around 56 knots (65 mph) toppled saeveral large trees and branches. A power-line was damaged.
August 2006	Lightning	Roxbury	$500	Lightning struck a home's chimney. kocking off several bricks.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Roxbury	-	Large trees, up to 2 to 3 feet in diameter, were toppled.
August 2006	Hail	Roxbury	-	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
Wisconsin Heights Battlefield	2.5 miles	2002
John and Margarethe Kemp Cabin	3.1 miles	2008
Kehl Winery	3.3 miles	1976
Adam Dunlap Farmstead	4.2 miles	2001
Frederick Schumann Farmstead	4.3 miles	1993
Friederich Kohlmann House	4.6 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000461 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.