APPOMATTOX (shipwreck) (Boundary Increase II and Additional Documentation)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 2015 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 150 yds. off Atwater Beach, Shorewood, 53211
When was it listed? November 2015
Category. site
National Register reference number. 15000811 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of APPOMATTOX (shipwreck) (Boundary Increase II and Additional Documentation) between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
7 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1767699
7 August 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1767727
13 August 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1769924
29 July 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1764515
13 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1804468
10 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1804397
8 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1746257
19 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1750036

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee 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 APPOMATTOX (shipwreck) (Boundary Increase II and Additional Documentation): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Thorium. 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
	Cerac Inc.	REE, Thorium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shorewood, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 2 lightning, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2018	Lightning	Shorewood	$405,000	A home fire caused by a lightning strike resulted in the total loss of the home.
July 1997	Lightning	Shorewood	$25,000	Lightning induced fire destoyed a garage and parked car.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Shorewood	$15,000	Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts up to 56 knots (65 mph) toppled several large trees and damaged some power-lines.
August 2006	Hail	Shorewood	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
APPOMATTOX (shipwreck) Boundary Increase	under 500 feet	2011
APPOMATTOX (Shipwreck)	0.2 miles	2005
APPOMATTOX (Shipwreck)	0.3 miles	2005
George E. Morgan House	0.6 miles	1985
Seneca W. & Bertha Hatch House	0.8 miles	1985
Erwin Cords House	0.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000811 in Record Group 79.
Milwaukee County	All 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.