Tripp Memorial Library and Hall

Built in 1912 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Tripp Memorial Library and Hall is a historic building at 565 Water Street in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. The building was constructed in 1912-13 to serve as Prairie du Sac's public library and village hall; the library had previously occupied two rooms of a local hotel.”
Wikipedia article Tripp Memorial Library and Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Sauk County · listed in 1981 · category: Building · built in 1912, Neoclassical 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. 565 Water St., Prairie du Sac, 53578
When was it listed? September 1981
Category. building
Village. Prairie du Sac village
When was it built? 1912
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 81000060 - 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Tripp Memorial Library and Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 247 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	44
Debris and open burning	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TRUSSEL SMOKE
6 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FITZGERALD YARD
5 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SNUFFYS
27 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BREUNIG RD
26 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	MAGAZINE UNIT
24 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	MATCH BAG
24 July 2008	Recreation and ceremony	4.8 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Sauk 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 Tripp Memorial Library and Hall: 2 producers. All of them 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Matousek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Pulvermacher Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sauk County

Storms near this property

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prairie du Sac, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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
June 1996	Tornado (F1)	Prairie Du Sac	$75,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Prairie Du Sac	$15,000	Numerous trees down 18 to 24 inches in diameter.
March 2019	Flood	Prairie Du Sac	$10,000	Many streets on the west side of Sauk Prairie flooded and closed. Some homes surrounded by floodwaters and many basements flooded.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Prairie Du Sac	$10,000	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Prairie Du Sac	$3,000	Some tree damage in Prairie Du Sac including a large tree down at the intersection of Grand Ave. and 6th St.
June 1996	Tornado (F0)	Prairie Du Sac	$1,000	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Prairie Du Sac	-	Trees down.
March 2022	Hail	Prairie Du Sac	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Prairie Du Sac	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Prairie Du Sac	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Prairie Du Sac	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Prairie Du Sac	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Prairie Du Sac	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sauk 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
Freethinkers` Hall	1.1 miles	1988
Otto Sr. and Lisette Hahn House	1.2 miles	2012
Lachmund Family House	1.3 miles	2000
Sauk City High School	1.3 miles	1989
Sauk City Fire Station	1.4 miles	1999
August W. Derleth House	1.9 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000060 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sauk County	All 58 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.