Martin K. Dahl House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Dodge County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · 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. Dahl, Martin K., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 314 Beaver Dam St., Waupun, 53963
When was it listed? September 1975
Category. building
City. Waupun city
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number. 75000062 - 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

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Martin K. Dahl House between 1994 and 2018, burning about 2,021 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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	13
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	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
18 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Horicon National Wildlife Refuge	PEACHY NORTH WF
23 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Horicon National Wildlife Refuge	NEITZEL WF
22 July 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Horicon National Wildlife Refuge	PEACHY RD. WF
28 June 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Horicon National Wildlife Refuge	MOWER WF
8 May 2011	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Horicon National Wildlife Refuge	ZELLMER WF
19 May 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Horicon National Wildlife Refuge	TENPASS WF
18 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	F180545
15 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Horicon National Wildlife Refuge	WCS WF

Every fire recorded in Dodge 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 Martin K. Dahl House: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Howard Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Larson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Linck Waupun Quarries	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Waupun Ready Mix Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wegenke Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dodge 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

3 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
Central State Hospital Historic District	0.6 miles	1991
Wisconsin State Prison Historic District	0.7 miles	1992
Waupun Public Library	0.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000062 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dodge County	All 36 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.