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Photograph of Calumet County Courthouse
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Calumet County Courthouse

Built in 1913 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Calumet County Courthouse, built in 1913, is an historic copper-domed county courthouse building located at 206 Court St in Chilton, Wisconsin. Mehner in the Classical Revival style, it was built of red brick.”

Wikipedia article Calumet County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Calumet County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1913, 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. 206 Court St., Chilton, 53014
  • When was it listed? March 1982
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. County Courthouses of Wisconsin TR
  • City. Chilton city
  • When was it built? 1913
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82000640 - 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Calumet County Courthouse between 2010 and 2020, burning about 19 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
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources84
19 October 2010Equipment and vehicle use18 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Calumet 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 Calumet County Courthouse: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Charlesburg QuarryStoneUnknown
Chilton QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Arnold Ortlepp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schneider PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Brant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Charlesburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Haepner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calumet County

Storms near this property

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chilton, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 25 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 5 funnel cloud, 2 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
September 2011Thunderstorm WindChilton$70,000Thunderstorm winds uprooted large trees at the county fair grounds and damaged several vehicles and campers. The high winds also caused scattered power outages.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindChilton$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindChilton$5,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindChilton$5,000no account filed
August 2015Thunderstorm WindChilton$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Chilton.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindChilton$2,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindChilton$1,500no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindChilton$1,000no account filed
July 1994HailChilton$500no account filed
September 2021HailChilton-Half dollar size hail fell at Chilton High School. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
September 2021HailChilton-Quarter size hail fell in Chilton. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindChilton-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Chilton.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindChilton-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large branches on Water Street in Chilton.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindChilton-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees branches and power lines in Chilton.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindChilton-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Chilton.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindChilton-A thunderstorm wind gust to 58 mph was measured at Chilton.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindChilton-Thunderstorm winds uprooted several 3 to 4 foot diameter trees.
August 2011Funnel CloudChilton-A county sheriff saw two funnel clouds several miles north of Chilton. The funnels were also seen by the public from the village of Potter.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindChilton-A school in Chilton measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 64 mph.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindChilton-Trees and power lines were blown down in Chilton.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindChilton-Thunderstorm wind gusts to 70 mph tossed a carport 100 feet, dropping it onto a road in Chilton.
July 2008HailChilton-Golf ball size hail fell at Chilton.
July 2008HailChilton-Tennis ball size hail fell at Chilton.
October 2007Funnel CloudChilton-A rotating wall cloud was observed near Chilton, occasionally producing a small funnel cloud.
July 2008HailChilton-no account filed
April 2006HailChilton-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
May 2006HailChilton-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
June 2005Funnel CloudChilton-no account filed
July 2004HailChilton-no account filed
August 2003Funnel CloudChilton-no account filed
August 2003Funnel CloudChilton-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
May 2002HailChilton-no account filed
April 2002HailChilton-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindChilton-no account filed
June 1996Tornado (F0)Chilton-no account filed
July 1996HailChilton-no account filed
July 1996HailChilton-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Chilton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calumet 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
Chilton Post Office0.4 miles2000
Herman C. Timm House6.9 miles1996
Stockridge Indian Cemetery7.5 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000640 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calumet CountyAll 5 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.