Library Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“Library Park is the village green in Belleville, Wisconsin, platted in 1851, to which the two-story cream brick village hall was added in 1894. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 and on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989.”
Wikipedia article Library Park (Belleville, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1981 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Bounded by Vine, Main, Park and Pearl Sts., Belleville, 53508
When was it listed? January 1981
Category. site
Village. Belleville village
National Register reference number. 81000038 - 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

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Library Park between 2007 and 2020, burning about 69 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	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
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
5 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	40
28 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1806349
23 April 2014	Debris and open burning	65 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	DODGEVILLE CO-OP 8
30 March 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19310
3 November 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Library Park: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
	Hoesley Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this property

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belleville, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2018	Flood	Belleville	$1,000,000	The Sugar River rose rapidly in Belleville and flooded Belleville Communitiy Park and some neighborhoods. Nine families were evacuated from the east side of the town. The highway 69 bridge was closed and highway 92 was closed between River St. and County Road PB due to high water from the Sugar River.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$15,000	Powerful thunderstorm winds gusts knocked down several large trees and power-lines.
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$10,000	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$5,000	Large tree branches and power lines down.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$3,000	Tree damage in Belleville.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$3,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$3,000	no account filed
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$2,000	Large tree branches down.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$2,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$2,000	no account filed
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$1,000	Greater than 2 inch diameter tree branches down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$1,000	no account filed
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Measured wind gust.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Straight line winds measured on a home weather station.
June 2014	Hail	Belleville	-	Hail sizes ranged from 0.75 to 1.25 inches.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Several large trees were uprooted as the rain and small hail moved horizontally.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Belleville	-	Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding as water reached depths of 3 feet or more and several cars stalled. This was the 4th of 6 flash floods in Dane County on 3 different days. The first one occurred on June 7th, the next two on June 8th, and the last three on June 12th. In all six cases, damage to homes, businesses, and crops was noted. It was nearly impossible to break down the damages by flash flood event. Therefore, the collective breakdown is provided in the last June 12th flash flood StormData entry for Dane County. On June 12th, 2.57 inches of rain fell at Madison Truax Field, breaking the old record rainfall for the date which was 1.20 inches (June 8, 1877).
June 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Belleville	-	This tornado in south-central Dane County was a continuation of a tornado that spun up mid-way between the city of New Glarus and the village of Postville in northwest Green County. It entered Dane County on the west side of the city of Belleville and then moved northeast through the Lake Belle View area and drossed STH 69 about 1 mile north of the county line, and ultimately dissipated southeast of Basco, near CTH A. Luckily only tree damage occurred - of the uprooted tree or broken tree branch variety. The starting and ending locations in Dane County, with respect to lat/long pairs of numbers, were 42.85690/-89.55898 and 42.90230/-89.49764. DI#27 (TH), DOD3. Wind speed estimated at 83-87 knots (95-100 mph). The average path width in Dane County was about 60 yards.
April 2023	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	no account filed
August 2002	Flood	Belleville	-	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

4 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
Belleville Illinois Central Railroad Depot	under 500 feet	2016
John Fritz Farmstead	3.8 miles	1998
Paoli Co-Operative Creamery Company Plant	4.9 miles	2023
Paoli Mills	4.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000038 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.