Dunroven House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Dunroven House is a historic house at 7801 Dunroven Road northeast of the village of Dane, Wisconsin. The house was built in 1870 by Abram Asa Boyce, a farmer and politician who served in the Wisconsin State Legislature and chaired the Dane County Board of Supervisors.”
Wikipedia article Dunroven House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 7801 Dunroven Rd., Dane, 53529
When was it listed? November 1980
Category. building
Town. Vienna town
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80000120 - 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Dunroven House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 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
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Other causes	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1060
17 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BABYDOLL FIRE
20 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	Y COUCH
11 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TRUCK/TRAILER FIRE
9 June 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

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

Site	Commodity	Status
John Smith Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Francis Nordness Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Johnson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Norway Grove Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Quam Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this property

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dane, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 lightning, 2 tornado. 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
July 2010	Flash Flood	Dane	$150,000	Training thunderstorms produced 2.5 to 4.5 inches of rain in about two hours over mainly the northern half of the county. Street flooding stranded cars in Sun Prairie, various locations in the city of Madison, Oregon, Middleton and DeForest. Three to four feet of water covered the intersection of Commercial Avenue and Ckronke Road in Sun Prairie, stalling cars and filling some home basements and commercial buildings with water, damaging their contents.
August 1996	Lightning	Dane	$75,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Dane	$30,000	Trees down and minor damage to homes.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Dane	$25,000	Some sheet metal roofing and siding torn off a barn.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Dane	$10,000	High tension power lines down along a 1 mile stretch of County Road V.
May 2003	Lightning	Dane	$10,000	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Dane	$10,000	no account filed
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Dane	$2,000	Multiple tree limbs and trees down near Lodi Marsh.
July 2010	Tornado (EF1)	Dane	$1,000	A National Weather Service survey team confirmed a public report of a tornado near the village of Dane. The EF1 tornado developed just west of STH 113, a little north of the intersection with Reppen Road, and moved east-southeast before dissipating near the intersection of Lee Road and County Road Dam. The tornado caused minor crop damage to a corn field, uprooted trees and snapped large branches, as well as brought a power line down along the path, which averaged 20 yards in width. The EF1 estimated wind speed of 90 mph was based on DI 27(TH), DOD3.The exact start location is Lat. 43.26637 Lon. -89.52248. The exact end location is Lat 43.26337 Lon -89.49240.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Dane	$500	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Dane	-	Hail increased from 1.75 at 22:23 to 2.75 at 22:25.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Dane	-	Large trees uprooted and large limbs were knocked out of trees by powerful gusts with heavy rains.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Dane	-	Trees toppled, and lots of branches broken. Corn stalks broken/blown down at a 45 degree angle.
August 2005	Tornado (F0)	Dane	-	At 1717CST, a tornado developed 2.0 miles west-southwest of the village of Dane (Dane Co.) It traveled northeast and ended 0.8 miles north of Dane at 1721CST. Corn crop damage was noted and this tornado was rated an F0. The damage was noticeable from any of the local roads, but was seen only from an airplane flyover conducted by a severe weather spotter.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Dane	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Dane	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Dane	-	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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Waunakee Railroad Depot	6.5 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80000120 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.