Delafield Fish Hatchery

Built in 1907 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Delafield Fish Hatchery was established in 1906 in Delafield, Wisconsin as part of a state system to stock game fish fry into Wisconsin lakes and streams. The hatchery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.”
Wikipedia article Delafield Fish Hatchery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 153 National Register listings published here for Waukesha County · listed in 1981 · category: Building · built in 1907, Victorian 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. Main St., Delafield, 53018
When was it listed? May 1981
Category. building
City. Delafield city
When was it built? 1907
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 81000064 - 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Delafield Fish Hatchery between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	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
21 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1802995
16 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	381
19 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1839
30 June 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1801911
28 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	190
2 May 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	125
1 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	124
9 April 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	157

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Delafield Fish Hatchery: 5 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Dousman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Evans Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
North Sawyer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit Wolf Constr.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Vogt Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Vulcan Dousman Pit 422	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Waukesha Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this property

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delafield, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Delafield	$25,000	A local newspaper reported trees and power lines were downed and a few homes damaged by severe thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph (61 knots).
May 1998	Lightning	Delafield	$20,000	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Delafield	$10,000	no account filed
May 1998	Lightning	Delafield	$10,000	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Delafield	$5,000	no account filed
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Delafield	$4,000	Several trees damaged in Delafield.
May 1998	Lightning	Delafield	$4,000	no account filed
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Delafield	$3,000	Several trees and wires down in and near Delafield.
August 2002	Lightning	Delafield	$3,000	no account filed
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Delafield	$2,000	About a half a dozen large branches and tops of trees broken off along with two downed and split trees.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Delafield	$1,000	A large tree down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Delafield	$1,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Delafield	$1,000	no account filed
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Delafield	-	Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts toppled a few large trees and sheared off a couple pine trees.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Delafield	-	Trees were reported down with the damaging winds. Penny sized hail was also noted for 5 minutes within the swath of wind damage.
May 2023	Hail	Delafield	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Delafield	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Delafield	-	no account filed
May 2004	Funnel Cloud	Delafield	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Delafield	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Delafield	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Delafield	-	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Delafield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Hawks Inn	0.1 miles	1972
St. John's Military Academy	0.2 miles	1977
St. John Chrysostom Church	0.2 miles	1972
Bishopstead	1.0 miles	1984
Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin	1.8 miles	1972
Statesan Historic District	2.7 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000064 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Waukesha County	All 153 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.