BlockFrom the record
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Forest County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
John and Anna Wywialowski Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
The listing
- Listed as. Wywialowski, John and Anna, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 8680 Highway 101, Armstrong Creek, 54103
- When was it listed? November 2016
- Category. building
- Town. Armstrong Creek town
- National Register reference number. 16000766 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
70 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of John and Anna Wywialowski Farmstead between 1992 and 2019, burning about 127 acres in total. 5 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 | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 1992 | Debris and open burning | 8.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | CHURCH FIRE |
| 9 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of John and Anna Wywialowski Farmstead: 12 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong Creek Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Camp B Lake Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Crossroads Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Dogleg Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Fiddle Top Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Finger Ridge Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Foxhead Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Goose Point Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Kus Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| La Fave Lake Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Armstrong Creek, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Armstrong Creek | $50,000 | A second tornado formed in Forest County about four miles west of Armstrong Creek at 8:03 pm CDT (1903 CST). The tornado snapped and uprooted trees and damaged two houses. One of the houses sustained significant roof damage (DI 2, DOD 4) as the tornado moved across the area. The average width was 125 yards. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Armstrong Creek | - | Quarter size hail fell in Armstrong Creek. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Armstrong Creek | - | no account filed |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Armstrong Creek Bridge | 3.1 miles | 2011 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000766 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Forest County | All 9 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.