Eli May House

Built in 1864. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1864.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. May, Eli, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 407 E. Milwaukee Ave., Fort Atkinson, 53538
When was it listed? September 1972
Category. building
City. Fort Atkinson city
When was it built? 1864
National Register reference number. 72000056 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Eli May House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
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
12 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	244
15 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	96
2 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	132
13 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	144
22 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	107
26 March 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	56
18 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	72

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Eli May House: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Poyers Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Schuth Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fort Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Poyers Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Strasburg Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Atkinson, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 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
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Atkinson	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
Fort Atkinson Water Tower	0.1 miles	2005
Fort Atkinson Club	0.2 miles	2017
Arthur R. Hoard House	0.3 miles	1982
Merchants Avenue Historic District	0.3 miles	1986
Main Street Historic District	0.3 miles	1984
David W. and Jane Curtis House	0.4 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000056 in Record Group 79.
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.
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.