Stony Hill School

Built in 1847. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Stony Hill School is a one-room school where on June 14, 1885, the teacher and his students held the first observance of "Flag Birth Day." For this, the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”
Wikipedia article Stony Hill School (Waubeka, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Ozaukee County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1847.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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.
Address. NE of Waubeka on SR 1, waubeka, 53021
When was it listed? October 1976
Category. building
Town. Fredonia town
When was it built? 1847
National Register reference number. 76000072 - 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

15 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Stony Hill School between 2002 and 2020, burning about 18 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
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
17 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 June 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19017
6 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18017
26 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20038
1 May 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	110
8 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18005
20 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20027
20 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20032

Every fire recorded in Ozaukee County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Stony Hill School: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Ciriak Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Clump Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hamm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hartman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hartmann Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lakeland Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rau Pit Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ozaukee County

Storms near this property

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names waubeka, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail. 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
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Waubeka	$20,000	no account filed
March 2019	Flood	Waubeka	$10,000	A significant ice jam at the Milwaukee River at Waubeka closed the Cigrant Rd. bridge. Just upstream from the bridge, 20 homes were impacted by flooding and 50 people were evacuated. The American Red Cross gave aid to the evacuees. Much farther upstream, a lift station in the Village of Newburg was damaged. An Emergency Declaration was issued due to excessive flooding, although the flooding primarily was lowland.
April 2014	Flood	Waubeka	-	The Milwaukee river crested at 11.4 feet in Cedarburg and was experiencing minor flooding throughout Ozaukee County. Several roads were closed due to the flooding.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Waubeka	-	Trees blown over.
May 2011	Hail	Waubeka	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Waubeka	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ozaukee 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
Kendall Cabinet Shop	0.9 miles	2016
Payne Hotel	7.1 miles	1991
Harry W. Bolens House	7.9 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000072 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ozaukee County	All 38 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.