BlockFrom the record
One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 2013 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Root River Parkway
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
The listing
- Address. Between W. Layton Ave. & S. 76th St., Greendale, 53130
- When was it listed? January 2013
- Category. district
- Also known as. Milwaukee County Parkway System MPS
- Village. Hales Corners village
- National Register reference number. 12001253 - 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
34 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Root River Parkway between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 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 | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1778160 |
| 31 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2990 |
| 30 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 203500 |
| 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 |
| 29 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 202979 |
| 19 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 182913 |
| 13 July 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 202737 |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Root River Parkway: 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack S Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Own Crews | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Franklin Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Lippman Plant # 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
12 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greendale, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Lightning | Greendale | $3,000 | A lightning strike left a hole in the roof of a home. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greendale | $2,000 | Several large trees down. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Greendale | - | Large hail with 30 to 35 mph wind gusts. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Greendale | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Greendale | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Greendale | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Greendale | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Greendale | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Greendale | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Heavy Rain | Greendale | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greendale | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Greendale | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Trimborn Farm | 0.6 miles | 1980 |
 | Jeremiah Curtin House | 0.7 miles | 1972 |
 | W. Ben Hunt Cabin | 1.6 miles | 2008 |
 | Greendale Historic District | 1.6 miles | 2005 |
| Mount Hope Evangelical Lutheran Church | 4.8 miles | 2025 | |
 | Juneau Highlands Residential Historic District | 5.1 miles | 2011 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12001253 in Record Group 79. |
| Milwaukee County | All 300 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.