Hoard's Dairyman Farm

Built in 1845. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Hoard's Dairyman Farm, just north of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, was purchased in 1899 by W. Hoard used the farm as a laboratory for testing ideas for his magazine Hoard's Dairyman, like the use of alfalfa for feeding dairy cattle.”
Wikipedia article Hoard's Dairyman Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1845.

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

The listing

Address. N of Fort Atkinson, Fort Atkinson, 53538
When was it listed? August 1978
Category. building
Town. Koshkonong town
When was it built? 1845
National Register reference number. 78000105 - 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

13 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Hoard's Dairyman Farm between 2014 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
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
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
20 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	137
12 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	244
15 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	96
10 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	94
30 May 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	JEFFERSON MARSH PEAT FIRE
2 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	132
2 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	69
2 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	68

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Hoard's Dairyman Farm: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Poyers Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Schuth Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Strasburg Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fort Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Poyers Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Strasburg Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Atkinson, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Atkinson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
David W. and Jane Curtis House	1.0 miles	2009
Main Street Historic District	1.3 miles	1984
Fort Atkinson Club	1.3 miles	2017
Eli May House	1.4 miles	1972
Fort Atkinson Water Tower	1.4 miles	2005
Arthur R. Hoard House	1.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000105 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 52 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.