Durward's Glen

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Durward's Glen is a historic property located in the town of Caledonia, Columbia County, Wisconsin, northeast of the village of Merrimac. The land encompasses a ravine nestled between steep bluffs, part of the Baraboo Bluffs adjoining the Wisconsin River.”
Wikipedia article Durward's Glen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 55 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. NE of Merrimac off WI 78, Merrimac, 53913
When was it listed? November 1978
Category. district
Town. Caledonia town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 78000081 - 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Durward's Glen between 1992 and 2019, burning about 206 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Other causes	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2

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
29 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HIGHWAY DL

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Durward's Glen: 3 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Blau Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Achterberg Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Baraboo Quartzite Company, Inc.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Merrimac Ferry	5.0 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000081 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia County	All 55 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.