Albert and Mary Shekey House

Built in 1885 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Albert and Mary Shekey House is a historic house at W7526 Koshkonong Mounds Road in the town of Koshkonong, Wisconsin. The house was built in 1885 for Mary Shekey, the daughter of two of Jefferson County's first settlers, and her husband Albert, an engineer for the Chicago & North Western Railway.”
Wikipedia article Albert and Mary Shekey House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1885, Queen Anne style.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Shekey, Albert and Mary, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. W7526 Koshkonong Mounds Rd., Koshkonong, 53538
When was it listed? July 2015
Category. building
Town. Koshkonong town
When was it built? 1885
Architectural style. Queen Anne style
National Register reference number. 15000404 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Albert and Mary Shekey House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
2 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	132
6 April 2000	Smoking	3.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 March 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1903267
18 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	72
27 February 2020	Smoking	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	190

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Albert and Mary Shekey House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Poyers Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Lorine Niedecker Cottage	1.6 miles	2018
Jones Dairy Farm	4.4 miles	1978
Helmut Ajango House	4.8 miles	2022
Merchants Avenue Historic District	4.9 miles	1986
Arthur R. Hoard House	4.9 miles	1982
Main Street Historic District	5.0 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000404 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 52 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.