Burlington Cemetery Chapel

Built in 1922 (Richardsonian Romanesque). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Racine County · listed in 2013 · category: Building · built in 1922, Richardsonian Romanesque.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 701 S. Browns Lake Dr., Burlington, 53105
When was it listed? October 2013
Category. building
City. Burlington city
When was it built? 1922
Architectural style. Richardsonian Romanesque
National Register reference number. 13000824 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

27 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Burlington Cemetery Chapel between 2018 and 2020, burning about 40 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	16
Debris and open burning	9
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
26 August 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	217
1 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	191
9 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	717
1 June 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	517
4 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	97
30 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	667
7 April 2018	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	75
7 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	67

Every fire recorded in Racine County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Burlington Cemetery Chapel: 8 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Limestone Quarry #3	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Pit Number 3	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Burlington Pit Yard 12	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dons Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ed Prott Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
J W Peters and Sons Inc Pit No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kenosha County Hwy Dept Wilmot Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Krueger Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Oakes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Payne and Dolan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Racine County

Storms near this property

57 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burlington, the town this property stands in, in 57 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 33 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 7 lightning, 4 flood. The reports record 9 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
May 2006	Lightning	Burlington	5 hurt	Five people were injured (suffered tingling sensations) by a nearby lightning strike during the ChocolateFest in Burlington. They were taken to a local hospital for medical treatment and released.
May 2006	Lightning	Burlington	2 hurt	A mother and her child outside a retail store in Burlington were injured when a lightning bolt struck nearby.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	1 hurt, $250,000	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	1 hurt, $3,000	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$200,000	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$150,000	Severe thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts estimated at 80 mph. Many power lines and trees were taken down by the strong winds, and several homes and cars were damaged.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$75,000	no account filed
February 2001	Lightning	Burlington	$30,000	no account filed
September 1997	Lightning	Burlington	$30,000	no account filed
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$25,000	A swath of tree damage across Racine County from Burlington toward Raymond.
August 2006	Flash Flood	Burlington	$20,000	Persistent thunderstorms producing torrential rain caused flooding from 2 miles east of Burlington to 2 miles west of Union Grove. The water closed several roads and caused some basement flooding. Radar estimated 4 to 5 inches of rainfall in this area and 3.71 inches of rain was reported in Burlington.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$15,000	Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled many large trees in the city of Burlington. One tree had a vary large branch snap off and fall onto a car, curshing it in the process. Tree debris brought down several power-lines.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$15,000	no account filed
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$15,000	no account filed
November 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$10,000	Scattered trees and branches down, including power lines, from Burlington to Lake Michigan.
April 2013	Flood	Burlington	$10,000	The Fox River at Burlington experienced moderate flooding as it crested at 12.91 feet, or 1.91 feet above the flood stage of 11 feet at 330 AM on April 19th.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$10,000	Trees and power lines down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$8,000	Scattered trees and wires down from northern Burlington toward Waterford.
March 2026	Flood	Burlington	$3,000	Video provided of a stranded vehicle in floodwaters in Burlington.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$3,000	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$3,000	no account filed
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$2,000	Several trees down on power lines and cars.
September 2002	Lightning	Burlington	$2,000	no account filed
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$2,000	no account filed
October 2018	Flood	Burlington	$1,000	The Fox River reached minor flood stage, cresting at 11.33 feet early morning on October 7th. Floodwaters are into Riverside Park in Burlington. Floodwaters cover a portion of Brever Road about 4 miles south of Burlington.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$1,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$1,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$1,000	no account filed
September 1997	Lightning	Burlington	$1,000	no account filed
October 1996	Lightning	Burlington	$800	no account filed
October 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Burlington	-	Minor damage was found along the path. Tornado determination was supported by multiple eyewitness reports and a tornadic debris signature on radar.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Strong winds knocked large branches out of trees and uprooted a couple dozen large trees. A few power-lines were snapped by the broken branches. Two roads were blocked by the tree debris.
June 2011	Hail	Burlington	-	A trained spotter reported large hail, estimated to be 1.25 inches in diameter, that fell near a Y.M.C.A. camp east of Burlington.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Trees down.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
January 2008	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	no account filed
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	no account filed
October 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
October 2001	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
June 1999	Flood	Burlington	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Racine 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
Burlington Downtown Historic District	1.1 miles	2000
Kane Street Historic District	1.4 miles	2014
Burlington Community Swimming Pools and Bathhouse	1.4 miles	2013
Franklyn Hazelo House	3.4 miles	1974
Whitman-Belden House	4.0 miles	1980
Elam Beardsley Farmhouse	7.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000824 in Record Group 79.
Racine County	All 57 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.