Daniel Pond Farmhouse

Built in 1850. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Daniel Pond Farmhouse, also known as Eggleston Farm, is a limestone-walled home built in Rutland, Wisconsin in the 1840s. In 1980 the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Daniel Pond Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1850.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Pond, Daniel, Farmhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of Brooklyn on U.S. 14, Brooklyn, 53521
When was it listed? June 1980
Category. building
Town. Rutland town
When was it built? 1850
National Register reference number. 80000128 - 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

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Daniel Pond Farmhouse between 2006 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
4 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	83
14 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	26 acres	Leopold Wetland Management District	BIGLOW RD
5 May 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TRAILER DRAGGING
3 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	55
1 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	54
8 April 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BADFISH
5 April 2006	Debris and open burning	41 acres	Leopold Wetland Management District	LUND CONVERSION
21 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	55

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Daniel Pond Farmhouse: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Knutson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Union Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Halverson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Liberty Pole Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Reindahl Quarries	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Rock County Highway Department	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working 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
Francis Marian Ames Farmstead	0.7 miles	1992
Lockwood Barn	1.2 miles	1982
Sereno W. Graves House	1.4 miles	1982
Samuel Hunt House	2.5 miles	1982
Rutland United Brethren in Christ Meeting House and Cemetery	2.5 miles	2004
Oregon Water Tower and Pump House	5.8 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80000128 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.