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Photograph of Cudahy Chicago and North Western Railway Depot
Photograph by David Wilson ( davidwilson1949 ), CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cudahy Chicago and North Western Railway Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Cudahy Depot is a historic railroad station built in 1893 by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway in Cudahy, Wisconsin.”

Wikipedia article Cudahy station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 4647 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., Cudahy, 53110
  • When was it listed? September 2013
  • Category. building
  • City. Cudahy city
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style
  • National Register reference number. 13000750 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

15 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Cudahy Chicago and North Western Railway Depot between 2018 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2020Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1778160
5 August 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1383
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001474
29 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1343
24 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1762641
3 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000944
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1734269
27 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1391

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee 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 Cudahy Chicago and North Western Railway Depot: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dcs MillIronPlant
Lake Michigan Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this property

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cudahy, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCudahy$100,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCudahy$40,000The City of Cudahy Emergency Manager reported numerous trees down in the city. One tree severely damaged a mobile home-trailer.
June 2005HailCudahy$20,000Hail and 40 to 50 mph winds caused some siding damage.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindCudahy$7,000Many trees and branches down.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCudahy$5,000A large tree branch down on a car. A few other large branches down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCudahy$1,000A large tree down near Mitchell Field.
August 2014HailCudahy-no account filed
November 2013HailCudahy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Milwaukee 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Holy Family Roman Catholic Church Complex0.9 miles2021
Henni Hall1.6 miles1974
TOPS Club Inc2.7 miles2022
New Coeln House2.8 miles1988
Oak Creek Parkway3.0 miles2011
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company Saloon3.1 miles1977

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000750 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Milwaukee CountyAll 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.