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Photograph of Henry and Barbara Bierbauer House
Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Henry and Barbara Bierbauer House

Built in 1869 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Juneau County · listed in 2016 · category: Building · built in 1869, Italianate architecture.

Sources: 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.
  • Listed as. Bierbauer, Henry and Barbara, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 970 S. Monroe St., New Lisbon, 53950
  • When was it listed? June 2016
  • Category. building
  • Town. Lisbon town
  • When was it built? 1869
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 16000379 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Henry and Barbara Bierbauer House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use43
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2

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
23 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesEVERGREEN
12 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2000Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Juneau County

Storms near this property

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Lisbon, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 17 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 2 tornado. 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
June 2000Tornado (F1)New Lisbon$500,000no account filed
May 2000HailNew Lisbon$55,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$50,000no account filed
August 2006HailNew Lisbon$25,000no account filed
August 2025HailNew Lisbon$12,000Emergency management reported golf ball sized hail 1 mile west of New Lisbon.
October 2006HailNew Lisbon$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$10,000no account filed
June 2004Tornado (F1)New Lisbon$7,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down in the city of New Lisbon.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$4,000Trees and power lines were blown down near New Lisbon.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$2,500no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$2,000Trees were blown down in New Lisbon.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$2,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$1,500no account filed
August 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$1,000Trees were blown down on County Road A between Hustler and New Lisbon.
June 2006HailNew Lisbon$500no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$500no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$500no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon$250Very heavy rain and pea size hail occurred.
April 2026FloodNew Lisbon-Heavy rain due to repeated rounds of thunderstorms during the middle of April resulted in the Lemonweir River at New Lisbon reaching flood stage during the evening hours on April 14th. The river crested in major flood stage and near the flood of record during the evening hours on April 16th before falling below flood stage during the afternoon on April 21st.
July 2025FloodNew Lisbon-Ongoing river flooding on the Lemonwier River at New Lisbon that began in June persisted into July where the river crested at 10.81 feet in minor flood stage during the morning hours on July 1st. The river eventually fell below flood stage on July 3rd during the afternoon.
July 2024FloodNew Lisbon-Significant rainfall throughout June and early July pushed the Lemonwier River at New Lisbon into flood stage on July 4th. The river stage crested during the late morning on July 6th in minor flood stage at 10.96 ft.
June 2024FloodNew Lisbon-Significant rainfall later into June pushed the Lemonweir River at New Lisbon into flood stage late on June 25th. The river stage crested during the morning on June 27th in minor flood stage at 10.28 ft.
August 2020Heavy RainNew Lisbon-A mesonet station in New Lisbon measured 9.54 inches of rain.
September 2018FloodNew Lisbon-Flooding along the Lemonweir River in New Lisbon that began in late August, ended in early September.
August 2018FloodNew Lisbon-Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Lemonweir River out of its banks in New Lisbon. The river crested just under two feet above the flood stage at 11.85 feet.
July 2008HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
July 2008HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
June 2004HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
April 2002HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
August 2001HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
September 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
September 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
April 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindNew Lisbon-no account filed
September 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
September 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
September 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed
September 1994HailNew Lisbon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Juneau 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

2 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
Juneau County Courthouse6.8 miles1982
Benjamin Boorman House6.8 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 16000379 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Juneau CountyAll 6 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.
  • 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.