Eureka Lock and Lock Tender's House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

One of 85 National Register listings published here for Winnebago County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure.

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 3 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Eureka on Fox River, Eureka, 54923
When was it listed? September 1976
Category. structure
Town. Rushford town
National Register reference number. 76000082 - 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Eureka Lock and Lock Tender's House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 411 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 burning	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	UMOS CAMP FIRE
30 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WHEAT ROCK
14 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 July 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	29 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 June 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Eureka Lock and Lock Tender's House: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
A.F. Gelhar Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Allen Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Chier Industrial Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ewald Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ewald Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Rabbit Trail Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Winnebago County

Storms near this property

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines near Eureka. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Eureka. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Eureka. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in Eureka.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	Thunderstorm winds snapped numerous 6 inch diameter tree limbs in Eureka.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	A couple of trees were blown down near the intersection of Highway 91 and County Road E.
July 2006	Hail	Eureka	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Eureka	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winnebago 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

4 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
Cole Watch Tower	5.7 miles	1978
Omro High School, Annex and Webster Manual Training School	6.8 miles	1985
Omro Downtown Historic District	7.0 miles	1996
Omro Village Hall and Engine House	7.0 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000082 in Record Group 79.
Winnebago County	All 85 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.