Oehler Mill Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

One of 60 National Register listings published here for La Crosse County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. W5539 & W5565 Cty. Rd. MM, Shelby, 54601
When was it listed? May 2013
Category. building
Town. Shelby town
National Register reference number. 13000314 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Oehler Mill Complex between 1994 and 2020, burning about 228 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	3
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
27 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2004198
27 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2004189
30 June 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	LaCrosse District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge	WIGWAM SLOUGH
14 June 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	LaCrosse District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge	GOOSEIS
5 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	68
15 May 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2002320
9 April 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	195 acres	LaCrosse District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge	LAWRENCE LAKE
8 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	21 acres	LaCrosse District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge	RUNNING SLOUGH

Every fire recorded in La Crosse County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Oehler Mill Complex: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
La Crosse City Quarry	Stone	Unknown
La Crosse Sand Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lacrosse Sand and Gravel Co. Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bahr Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Chipmonk Coulee Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ober Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Torgerson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in La Crosse 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
District School No. 1	0.5 miles	1996
Carl August Mundstock Farm	0.5 miles	1994
Chambers-Markle Farmstead	0.9 miles	1991
La Crosse Armory	3.9 miles	2016
Holy Trinity School	4.0 miles	2021
Our Lady of Sorrows Chapel	4.0 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000314 in Record Group 79.
La Crosse County	All 60 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.