BlockFrom the record
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Marathon County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
United States Post Office and Court House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The listing
- Address. 317 1st St., Wausau
- When was it listed? May 2012
- Category. building
- Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
- National Register reference number. 12000294 - 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.
Storms near this property
60 of 96 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wausau, the town this property stands in, in 96 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 41 thunderstorm wind, 39 hail, 5 lightning, 4 heavy rain. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Wausau | 1 hurt, $1,300,000 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Lightning | Wausau | 1 hurt | A man was injured and taken to Aspirus Hospital after being struck by lightning while standing outside on Stewart Avenue in Wausau. The extent of his injuries were unknown. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | $320,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines, and caused roof damage to a middle school as the storms moved through Wausau. Trees landed on the roofs of two houses and on several cars. A gust to 64 mph was measured at Wausau Downtown Airport. |
| August 2013 | Lightning | Wausau | $99,000 | A lightning strike sparked a fire which destroyed a duplex on Wausau's east side. No one was injured in the blaze. The time of this event was estimated based on news reports and radar data. |
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Wausau | $58,000 | Rainfall of 2 to 3 inches of rain in a short time caused flash flooding in Wausau and Weston during the late afternoon. Multiple roads were under water and closed with stalled vehicles in the deeper water. |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Wausau | $10,000 | Slow moving thunderstorms dumped 3 to 5 inches of rain between 4:00 am and 8:30 am in Wausau. Water approached the roof of cars and manhole covers were blown off by the force of the water. A storm spotter measured 5.00 inches of rain during the period. |
| September 1997 | Heavy Rain | Wausau | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds uprooted several trees east of Riverview Elementary School and damaged the roof of a house. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Flash Flood | Wausau | - | Rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches in a short time caused street flooding in Wausau and flooding near Moon where a culvert was washed out. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Wausau | - | Quarter size hail fell in Wausau. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Wausau | - | Quarter size hail fell near Wausau. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Wausau | - | Penny size hail fell near Wausau. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Wausau | - | Half dollar size hail fell near Brokaw. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Wausau | - | Half dollar size hail fell near Wausau. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Wausau | - | Quarter size hail fell in Wausau. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Wausau | - | Quarter size hail fell near Wausau. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Wausau. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorms produced a wind gust to 69 mph at the Wausau downtown airport. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Wausau. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Wausau. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 63 mph was measured at the Wausau Downtown Airport. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 58 mph was measured at the Wausau Downtown Airport. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Wausau. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines in Wausau. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was measured near Wausau. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Wausau | - | Nickel size hail fell near Wausau. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power lines in Wausau. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Wausau | - | A thunderstorm dropped quarter size hail as it passed through Wausau. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Wausau | - | A thunderstorm dropped nickel size hail as it passed through Wausau. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Wausau | - | Nickel size hail fell west of Wausau. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped and uprooted trees, and downed power lines in the vicinity of Horseshoe Springs Road and Sylvan Street in Wausau. The storms also produced pea size hail. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Wausau | - | Nickel size hail fell in Wausau. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds downed branches and a couple of trees in Wausau. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Wausau | - | Quarter size hail fell in Wausau. |
| September 2015 | Heavy Rain | Wausau | - | Heavy rain caused street flooding in Wausau. |
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | Wausau | - | Several rounds of heavy rain in Marathon County brought more than 2.5 inches of rain to the Wausau area. Runoff from the heavy rain caused roadside ditches to fill with water. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Wausau. |
| July 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Wausau | - | A funnel cloud formed under a weak thunderstorm on the northeast side of Wausau. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Wausau | - | Nickel size hail fell in downtown Wausau. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down large tree limbs along Highway 52 and County Highway Z. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Wausau. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a barn off County Highway Z on the east side of Wausau. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Several trees were uprooted near the intersection of 11th Avenue and Stewart Avenue in Wausau. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees, some 4 to 5 feet in diameter, in downtown Wausau. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Wausau | - | Hail up to quarter size fell in Wausau. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Wausau | - | Half dollar size hail fell at the intersection of State Highway 29 and South 72nd Avenue. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | A trained weather spotter reported numerous trees down in the city of Wausau. Power outages were also reported in the city. A spotter in nearby Weston measured a wind gust of 59 mph in a partially sheltered location. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds downed 1 to 2 foot diameter trees at Northcentral Technical College in Wausau. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Wausau | - | Quarter size hail fell in downtown Wausau. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau | - | Thunderstorm winds caused damage in the Wausau area. Power lines were downed just west of U.S. Highway 51 on Stewart Avenue and trees were knocked down on Bridge Street. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Wausau | - | Golf ball size hail and 40 mph winds were reported on Highway 51. |
| July 2007 | Heavy Rain | Wausau | - | A Wausau television station measured 0.75 inch of rain in just 15 minutes. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Wausau | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Wausau | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Wausau | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Wausau | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Wausau | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Wausau | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12000294 in Record Group 79. |
| Marathon County | All 33 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.
- 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.