Okauchee House

Built in 1850 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 153 National Register listings published here for Waukesha County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1850, Greek Revival architecture.

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.
Address. 34880 Lake Dr., Okauchee, 53069
When was it listed? August 1978
Category. building
Village. Lac La Belle village
When was it built? 1850
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 78000149 - 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

20 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Okauchee House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	1
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
21 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1802995
19 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1839
30 June 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1801911
2 May 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	125
1 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	124
4 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1800908
30 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1800130
30 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1800131

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Okauchee House: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
North Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Silver Lake Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Vogt Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this property

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Okauchee, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 1 heavy rain, 1 hail, 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
October 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Okauchee	$5,000	Multiple trees and power lines down.
July 2017	Hail	Okauchee	-	no account filed
July 2003	Heavy Rain	Okauchee	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin	2.2 miles	1972
Oconomowoc High School	2.6 miles	2013
Henry and Mary Schuttler House	2.9 miles	1987
Bishopstead	2.9 miles	1984
Oconomowoc City Hall	2.9 miles	1980
Oconomowoc Depot	3.0 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000149 in Record Group 79.
Waukesha County	All 153 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.