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Photograph of Ferdinand C. Hartwig House
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Ferdinand C. Hartwig House

Built in 1864 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Hartwig House is a historic house located at 908 Country Lane in Watertown, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 17, 1982.”

Wikipedia article Ferdinand C. Hartwig House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Dodge County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1864, Italianate 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.
  • Listed as. Hartwig, Ferdinand C., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 908 Country Lane, Watertown, 53098
  • When was it listed? June 1982
  • Category. building
  • City. Watertown city
  • When was it built? 1864
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82000662 - 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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Ferdinand C. Hartwig House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
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
30 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1901800
20 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2001619
15 June 2018Natural1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801158
30 May 2018Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801057
7 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources13
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800842
21 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18
19 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000720

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ferdinand C. Hartwig House: 4 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Schmidt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Martin Kaddatz Gravel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sherwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
City of Watertown QuarryStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Watertown QuarryStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Dodge 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

2 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
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church3.3 miles1980
Kliese Housebarn3.9 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000662 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dodge CountyAll 36 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.