Amberg Town Hall

Built in 1894 (Queen Anne style architecture in the United States). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Marinette County · listed in 1981 · category: Building · built in 1894, Queen Anne style architecture in the United States.

Sources: 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. Grant St., Amberg, 54102
When was it listed? March 1981
Category. building
Town. Amberg town
When was it built? 1894
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 81000048 - 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Amberg Town Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 187 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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	34
Debris and open burning	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Power generation/transmission/distribution	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Arson/incendiarism	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Fireworks	4
Natural	3
Other causes	2
Smoking	2
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
4 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FRIDAY FIRE
17 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2001	Other causes	73 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ROCK FIRE
6 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Marinette County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Amberg Town Hall: 8 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone. 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
Silvery Grey Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Amberg Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Holmes Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Amberg Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Amberg Gravel Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Amberg Gravel Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Boshen Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Burdell Road Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Cedar Creek Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Downing Road Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Marinette County

Storms near this property

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amberg, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 4 hail. 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 2020	Hail	Amberg	-	Nickel size hail fell near Amberg.
September 2014	Hail	Amberg	-	Thunderstorms dropped quarter size hail near Amberg.
May 2012	Hail	Amberg	-	Quarter size hail fell at Amberg.
August 2002	Hail	Amberg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marinette 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000048 in Record Group 79.
Marinette County	All 12 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.