Harrisburg School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“Harrisburg School is a historic one-room schoolhouse in the township of Troy in rural Sauk County, Wisconsin. The Harrisburg School District built the school in 1892 to replace its original 1856 school building, which the district had outgrown by the 1890s.”
Wikipedia article Harrisburg School (Sauk County, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Sauk County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. E7646 Cty. Rd. B, Troy, 53588
When was it listed? March 2015
Category. building
Town. Troy town
National Register reference number. 15000109 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Harrisburg School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	34
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Recreation and ceremony	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
Smoking	2

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
17 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 September 2000	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Sauk 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

5 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
State Bank of Spring Green	5.4 miles	2010
Honey Creek Swiss Rural Historic District	5.4 miles	1990
Salem Evangelical Church	5.8 miles	1988
Our Lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery	6.9 miles	1990
Rest Haven Motel	7.8 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000109 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sauk County	All 58 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.