Charles L. Culton House

Built in 1902 (Queen Anne style architecture in the United States). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

One of 141 National Register listings published here for Rock County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1902, Queen Anne style architecture in the United States.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Culton, Charles L., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 708 Washington St., Edgertown, 53534
When was it listed? August 1977
Category. building
City. Edgerton city
When was it built? 1902
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 77000046 - 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.

The ground it stands on

7,620 words

This property stands in Edgerton City. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin; Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., published 1879 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Edgerton City - 7,620 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

23 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Charles L. Culton House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	11
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
26 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	201056
5 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1808574
11 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19738
7 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1806391
2 June 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20561
15 June 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19509
9 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20504
17 May 2018	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1805345

Every fire recorded in Rock 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 Charles L. Culton House: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Kidder Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Knudsen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rock 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Edgerton Post Office	0.3 miles	2000
Edgerton Public Grade Schools	0.4 miles	1987
Fulton Street Historic District	0.4 miles	1999
Sterling North House	0.4 miles	1997
Edgerton Depot	0.5 miles	1998
Pomeroy and Pelton Tobacco Warehouse	0.5 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000046 in Record Group 79.
Rock County	All 141 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.