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Photograph of Stockbridge Indian Cemetery
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Stockridge Indian Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Stockbridge Indian Cemetery is a cemetery north of Stockbridge, Wisconsin. It is located on Moore Road just west of Wisconsin Highway 55.”

Wikipedia article Stockbridge Indian Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Calumet County · listed in 1980 · category: Site.

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 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N of Stockridge off WI 55, Stockbridge, 54129
  • When was it listed? October 1980
  • Category. site
  • Town. Stockbridge town
  • National Register reference number. 80000111 - 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

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Stockridge Indian Cemetery between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
14 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources47
23 May 1997Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources31
19 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources427

Every fire recorded in Calumet 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 Stockridge Indian Cemetery: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
J and E QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lefeber PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mueller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Calumet County

Storms near this property

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockbridge, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000HailStockbridge$32,200,000no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F1)Stockbridge$300,000no account filed
July 2010Flash FloodStockbridge$140,000A thunderstorm produced very heavy rain in only a couple of hours in Calumet County near Stockbridge. Between 3:00 am and 4:00 am, 2.6 inches of rain fell, with a storm total of 4.40 inches recorded. The heavy rainfall caused a portion of a road to collapse along a drainage ditch which leads into Mud Creek. Several other county roads suffered damage from the fast moving water and a home experienced damage as water rushed into the structure's basement.
June 2014Heavy RainStockbridge$25,000Thunderstorms produced heavy rain in parts of central and southern Calumet County. 3.38 of rain fell near Stockbridge in less than three hours. The heavy rain caused fields to flood and washed out culverts of several area roads. Several houses had water in their basements.
July 2010Heavy RainStockbridge$4,000Heavy rainfall around Stockbridge washed out a section of Mapleview Lane and the shoulder along County Highway E about 2 miles east of town. One basement sustained water damage. The Calumet County Emergency Manager reported a measured rainfall total of 3.45 inches at Chilton, about 8 miles away, between 4:15 pm and 9:15 pm CST.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindStockbridge$2,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindStockbridge$1,000no account filed
March 2026HailStockbridge-Golf ball size hail fell in Stockbridge.
July 2025Flash FloodStockbridge-Rainfall of around 2 inches in a short time caused flash flooding near Stockbridge off WI-55. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindStockbridge-Thunderstorm winds destroyed a dock on Lake Winnebago. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2021HailStockbridge-Penny size hail fell near Stockbridge.
September 2021HailStockbridge-Quarter size hail fell near Stockbridge. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindStockbridge-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in Stockbridge and the Town of Harrison.
July 2010HailStockbridge-Quarter size hail fell near Stockbridge.
October 2007HailStockbridge-Walnut-size hail fell near Stockbridge.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindStockbridge-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindStockbridge-no account filed
June 2005Tornado (F0)Stockbridge-no account filed
August 2003HailStockbridge-no account filed
June 1999FloodStockbridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calumet 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

2 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Calumet County Courthouse7.5 miles1982
Chilton Post Office7.8 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80000111 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calumet CountyAll 5 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.