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Photograph of Hortonville Community Hall
Photograph by Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hortonville Community Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Outagamie County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.

Sources: 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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 312 W. Main St., Hortonville, 54944
  • When was it listed? January 1981
  • Category. building
  • Village. Hortonville village
  • National Register reference number. 81000053 - 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

9 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Hortonville Community Hall between 2010 and 2020, burning about 13 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5000117
30 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2007
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources24
29 April 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources9000106
29 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources9000107
30 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources74
24 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources40
20 March 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Outagamie County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Hortonville Community Hall: 15 past producers, 8 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Black Creek Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hortonville Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jurack QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cummings Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
F Acheson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Givens Road Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Grand View Road Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hortonville Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hortonville Sand Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hortonville Sand Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Outagamie County

Storms near this property

26 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hortonville, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Tornado (EF1)Hortonville$75,000A tornado damaged three power poles (DI 24, DOD 3,4), destroyed a car port of an outbuilding (DI 1, DOD 5), partially damaged two outbuildings (DI 1, DOD 3), removed siding off a couple houses (DI 2, DOD 2), and damaged trees along its path. Estimated peak winds around 90 mph.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHortonville$5,000Thunderstorm winds tore part of the roof from a barn in Hortonville.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHortonville-Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree onto a power line and blew a trampoline around in Hortonville. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
April 2022HailHortonville-Quarter size hail fell near Hortonville.
April 2022HailHortonville-Half dollar size hail fell in Hortonville.
September 2021HailHortonville-Lime size hail fell on highway T and TT southeast of New London. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
September 2021HailHortonville-Quarter size hail fell in Hortonville. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindHortonville-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Hortonville.
August 2014HailHortonville-A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail, along with wind gusts estimated at 50 mph, southeast of Hortonville.
September 2014HailHortonville-Quarter size hail fell in Hortonville.
June 2013HailHortonville-A thunderstorm dropped quarter size hail as it passed between Stephensville and Hortonville.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindHortonville-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust of 87 mph just southeast of Hortonville.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHortonville-A spotter, southeast of Hortonville, reported a measured wind gust of 67 mph as thunderstorms moved through the area.
July 2012HailHortonville-Penny size hail fell at Hortonville.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindHortonville-Thunderstorms produced a wind gust of 60 mph that was measured at Hortonville High School. Winds from the storm knocked out power at the school.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHortonville-Thunderstorm downburst winds uprooted or snapped about 65 trees on the northeast side of Hortonville and damaged a shed and playground equipment.
April 2003HailHortonville-no account filed
May 2002HailHortonville-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindHortonville-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindHortonville-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHortonville-no account filed
September 1998HailHortonville-no account filed
September 1998HailHortonville-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindHortonville-no account filed
August 1998HailHortonville-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindHortonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Outagamie 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

3 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
Joseph Kronser Hotel and Saloon4.9 miles1988
Greenville State Bank5.5 miles1982
Thern Farmstead6.5 miles2024

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 81000053 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Outagamie CountyAll 51 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.