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Photograph of Kehl Winery
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Kehl Winery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Wollersheim Winery is a winery, distillery, and restaurant just east of the twin cities of Sauk City and Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.”

Wikipedia article Wollersheim Winery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. E of Prairie du Sac on WI 188, Prairie du Sac, 53583
  • When was it listed? January 1976
  • Category. building
  • Town. Roxbury town
  • National Register reference number. 76000056 - 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Kehl Winery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 238 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning37
Equipment and vehicle use36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTRUSSEL SMOKE
5 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSNUFFYS
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBREUNIG RD
26 August 2020Debris and open burning1.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMAGAZINE UNIT
24 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMATCH BAG
24 July 2008Recreation and ceremony4.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesO COMPLEX #3

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kehl Winery: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Matousek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pulvermacher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dane 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Wisconsin Heights Battlefield3.1 miles2002
Frey School3.3 miles2011
John and Margarethe Kemp Cabin4.1 miles2008
Adam Dunlap Farmstead5.7 miles2001
Frederick Schumann Farmstead7.6 miles1993
Friederich Kohlmann House7.9 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000056 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane CountyAll 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.