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Elkhorn Municipal Building
Built in 1931 (Art Deco architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
From the record
“The Elkhorn Municipal Building, located at 9 South Broad Street, is the main city government building in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. The building was constructed in 1930-31 to replace the previous city hall, which had become too small for the city's needs.”
Wikipedia article Elkhorn Municipal Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 50 National Register listings published here for Walworth County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1931, Art Deco architecture, by Edward Tough.
National Register reference number.12000491- 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.
John Matheson (1820-1895), son of John and Jessie, was born in one of the joint counties of Ross and Cromarty, Scotland ; apprenticed to a tailor at Inverness; came to Lafayette in 1840; opened a shop and store at Elkhorn; married Loretta (1827-1903), daughter of Rev. Luther Lee.
Samuel Tubbs (died in 1861) and wife. Polly Frost (1785- 1875), were natives of Connecticut who settled at Augusta, New York, and lived a short time at Chagrin Falls, Ohio. A son. Isaac P., died at Elkhorn in 1859, aged fifty. A daughter. Martha, wife of Nicholas George Bowers, and two daughters were successively wives of Lot Mayo. Mrs. Tubbs was nearl) related to Alvah J. and Eli K. Frost.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Elkhorn Municipal Building
between 2018 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
13
Debris and open burning
6
Natural
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Elkhorn Municipal Building: 4 past producers, 4 unknowns, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Elkhorn, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 lightning, 2 heavy rain.
The reports record 16 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.
A severe thunderstorm produced wind gusts that downed power lines, trees and tree limbs just south of Elkhorn. The downed trees and limbs damaged a few homes as well as a fence.
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.
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.
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