BlockFrom the record
One of 21 National Register listings published here for Wood County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Wakeley's Tavern
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. W end of Wakeley Rd., Nekoosa, 54457
- When was it listed? December 1974
- Category. building
- Town. Saratoga town
- National Register reference number. 74000146 - 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
187 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Wakeley's Tavern between 1992 and 2020, burning about 246 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 48 |
| Debris and open burning | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | ROCKET |
| 4 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | PRYNE FIRE |
| 28 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | LYNN HILL FIRE |
| 23 September 1998 | Other causes | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
28 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nekoosa, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Flood | Nekoosa | $1,000 | Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused minor street flooding in Nekoosa. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Nekoosa. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | Nickel size hail fell in Nekoosa. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | Quarter size hail fell in Nekoosa. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorm winds downed large tree branches in Nekoosa. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | Quarter size hail fell southeast of Nekoosa. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | Nickel to quarter size hail fell near Nekoosa. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | Nickel size hail fell near Nekoosa. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous large trees in Nekoosa and knocked out power. The storms also dropped pea size hail. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous 5 to 8 inch diameter tree branches. |
| September 2015 | Heavy Rain | Nekoosa | - | A total of 4.00 inches of rain fell at Nekoosa during the evening of September 6th. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and knocked out power as the storms moved through Nekoosa. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Nekoosa | - | Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused street flooding in Nekoosa where water was up to a car door on Cedar Street and Wood Avenue. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorms produced winds downed trees and power lines, and dropped dime size hail, in Nekoosa. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | A Skywarn spotter observed nickel size hail as thunderstorms moved through Nekoosa. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | Quarter size hail fell in Nekoosa. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | The public reported that trees were blown down near the town of Nekoosa. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | Thunderstorm winds downed power lines in Nekoosa. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | A few trees down in the area. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Flood | Nekoosa | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Nekoosa | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoosa | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wakely Road Bridge | 0.1 miles | 2001 | |
| Nels and Nellie Johnson House | 6.7 miles | 2019 | |
 | Wood County Courthouse | 7.3 miles | 2015 |
 | Elizabeth Daly House | 7.4 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74000146 in Record Group 79. |
| Wood County | All 21 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.