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Photograph of Bayfield Fish Hatchery
Photograph by Billertl, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bayfield Fish Hatchery

Built in 1897 (Shingle style architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Bayfield Fish Hatchery is a historic fish hatchery in Salmo, Wisconsin, located 2.3 miles (3.7 km) southwest of Bayfield. The hatchery was built in 1897 in the Queen Anne style and Shingle style using local brownstone and played a historically significant role in the fishing industry on Lake Superior.”

Wikipedia article Bayfield Fish Hatchery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Bayfield County · listed in 1981 · category: Building · built in 1897, Shingle style architecture.

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.
  • Address. WI 13, Salmo, 54814
  • When was it listed? July 1981
  • Category. building
  • Town. Bayfield town
  • When was it built? 1897
  • Architectural style. Shingle style architecture, Queen Anne style
  • National Register reference number. 81000033 - 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Bayfield Fish Hatchery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 3 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
29 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWINSTON PROPERTY
11 September 2005Naturalunder an acreApostle Islands National LakeshoreSPLINTER WF
10 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2000Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2008Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Bayfield 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 Bayfield Fish Hatchery: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
F. L. Wolfe Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bayfield County

Storms near this property

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salmo, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSalmo-A 5 to 6 inch diameter tree was broken.
July 2023HailSalmo-no account filed
June 2020HailSalmo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bayfield 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Pureair Sanatorium0.8 miles1981
Old Bayfield County Courthouse2.8 miles1974
Bayfield Historic District2.8 miles1980
Christ Episcopal Church2.8 miles1974
Booth Cooperage3.0 miles1976
Frank Boutin Jr. House3.0 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 81000033 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bayfield CountyAll 21 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.