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One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Belleville Illinois Central Railroad Depot
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 109 S. Park St., Belleville, 53508
- When was it listed? December 2016
- Category. building
- Village. Belleville village
- Architectural style. Italianate architecture
- National Register reference number. 16000831 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
7 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Belleville Illinois Central Railroad Depot between 2007 and 2020, burning about 69 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 19-109 |
| 25 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | TRACTOR FIRE |
| 5 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 40 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1806349 |
| 23 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 65 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | DODGEVILLE CO-OP 8 |
| 30 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 19310 |
| 3 November 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Belleville Illinois Central Railroad Depot: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freitag | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Hoesley Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
23 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belleville, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Flood | Belleville | $1,000,000 | The Sugar River rose rapidly in Belleville and flooded Belleville Communitiy Park and some neighborhoods. Nine families were evacuated from the east side of the town. The highway 69 bridge was closed and highway 92 was closed between River St. and County Road PB due to high water from the Sugar River. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | $15,000 | Powerful thunderstorm winds gusts knocked down several large trees and power-lines. |
| February 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | $5,000 | Large tree branches and power lines down. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | $3,000 | Tree damage in Belleville. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | $2,000 | Large tree branches down. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | $1,000 | Greater than 2 inch diameter tree branches down. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | - | Measured wind gust. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | - | Straight line winds measured on a home weather station. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Belleville | - | Hail sizes ranged from 0.75 to 1.25 inches. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | - | Several large trees were uprooted as the rain and small hail moved horizontally. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Belleville | - | Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding as water reached depths of 3 feet or more and several cars stalled. This was the 4th of 6 flash floods in Dane County on 3 different days. The first one occurred on June 7th, the next two on June 8th, and the last three on June 12th. In all six cases, damage to homes, businesses, and crops was noted. It was nearly impossible to break down the damages by flash flood event. Therefore, the collective breakdown is provided in the last June 12th flash flood StormData entry for Dane County. On June 12th, 2.57 inches of rain fell at Madison Truax Field, breaking the old record rainfall for the date which was 1.20 inches (June 8, 1877). |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Belleville | - | This tornado in south-central Dane County was a continuation of a tornado that spun up mid-way between the city of New Glarus and the village of Postville in northwest Green County. It entered Dane County on the west side of the city of Belleville and then moved northeast through the Lake Belle View area and drossed STH 69 about 1 mile north of the county line, and ultimately dissipated southeast of Basco, near CTH A. Luckily only tree damage occurred - of the uprooted tree or broken tree branch variety. The starting and ending locations in Dane County, with respect to lat/long pairs of numbers, were 42.85690/-89.55898 and 42.90230/-89.49764. DI#27 (TH), DOD3. Wind speed estimated at 83-87 knots (95-100 mph). The average path width in Dane County was about 60 yards. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Belleville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Belleville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belleville | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Flood | Belleville | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Library Park | under 500 feet | 1981 |
 | John Fritz Farmstead | 3.8 miles | 1998 |
| Paoli Co-Operative Creamery Company Plant | 4.9 miles | 2023 | |
 | Paoli Mills | 4.9 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000831 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Dane County | All 238 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.