Paoli Mills

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Paoli Mills is an early mill complex on the Sugar River in Paoli, Wisconsin, including the remains of a sawmill built in 1849 and a largely intact flour mill begun in the 1860s. In 1979 the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Paoli Mills, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 6890 Sun Valley Pkwy., Paoli, 53508
When was it listed? March 1979
Category. district
Town. Montrose town
National Register reference number. 79000337 - 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

10 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Paoli Mills between 2004 and 2020, burning about 16 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19-109
25 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TRACTOR FIRE
25 June 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	471
5 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	40
26 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18427
16 April 2004	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18335
1 April 2018	Smoking	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18329

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Paoli Mills: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Freitag	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this property

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paoli, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2011: 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
September 2011	Hail	Paoli	-	A trained spotter reported hail near Paoli that was measured 3/4 of an inch in diameter that fell from strong to severe thunderstorms moving through Dane County during the early morning hours of of September 3rd.
July 2006	Heavy Rain	Paoli	-	Heavy rains of 4 to 5 inches fell over the area just southwest and south of Paoli within 90 minutes, based on WSR-88D Doppler radar estimates. There were no reports of flash flooding that would result in property or crop damage. However, some small streams in the area probably flooded for a an hour or so, and then receded. In addition, some low-lying roads probably had some water on them. Refer to the Madison flash flood event write-up to see a rainfall graphic of Dane County for July 27th.
May 2004	Hail	Paoli	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Paoli	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Paoli Co-Operative Creamery Company Plant	0.1 miles	2023
John Fritz Farmstead	4.5 miles	1998
Belleville Illinois Central Railroad Depot	4.9 miles	2016
Library Park	4.9 miles	1981
John Mann House	6.0 miles	1982
Fox Hall	6.5 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000337 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane County	All 238 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.