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One of 12 National Register listings published here for Price County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1898.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Matt Johnson Log House
Built in 1898. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Johnson, Matt, Log House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. S of Brantwood off U.S. 8, Brantwood, 54513
- When was it listed? December 1978
- Category. building
- Town. Knox town
- When was it built? 1898
- National Register reference number. 78000128 - 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
47 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Matt Johnson Log House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 88 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 July 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 July 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 June 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 June 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | COUNTY D |
| 14 June 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Matt Johnson Log House: 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ritchie Creek Propsect | Copper, Gold, Zinc | Prospect | 1979 | |
| Heikkinen Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Knox Creek Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pikes Peak Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ritchie Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brantwood, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Brantwood | $50,000 | Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches with localized amounts in excess of 5 inches fell over much of Price County. The heavier amounts led to flash flooding in the Town of Knox in the form of washed out roads and shoulders along with damaged culverts. This led to a disaster declaration for the county. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brantwood | - | Trees and powerlines were reported down in the area. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Brantwood | - | Street flooding reported in Brantwood. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Brantwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Brantwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Brantwood | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Brantwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Brantwood | - | no account filed |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78000128 in Record Group 79. |
| Price County | All 12 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.