Built in 1899 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The Green Lake County Courthouse in Green Lake, Wisconsin, United States, is the former seat of government for Green Lake County. The county government relocated to a new facility in 2011, and the following year the former courthouse underwent adaptive reuse as the Town Square Community Center.”
Wikipedia article Green Lake County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Green Lake County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1899, Neoclassical architecture, by William Waters.
National Register reference number.82000672- 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 Green Lake County Courthouse
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 181 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning
51
Equipment and vehicle use
35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14
Fireworks
4
Arson/incendiarism
3
Other causes
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Smoking
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Green Lake County Courthouse: 3 producers, 2 unknowns.
3 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Green Lake, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain.
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.
This EF1 tornado entered into Green Lake County from Fond Du Lac County at Searl Road/ County Line Road about 2000 feet north of Carter Road into Green Lake County. The average path width was 60 yards, with a maximum path width of 100 yards. The tornado uprooted trees and tore away metal panels off the roof of a pole shed. The EF1 rating was determined by using DI 21(MBS) DOD 3 EXP with estimated winds speeds of 95 mph. The exact starting point was 43.70275/-88.88517 and the exact ending point was 43.72962/-88.90737.
Based on a report from county emergency managers, an NWS storm survey team determined damage located near the northeast shore of Green Lake was caused by microburst winds estimated at 100 mph (81 knots). Eight homes, a boat and two piers were damaged by the winds. Four dozen trees were uprooted or snapped along the path of the microburst winds.
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.
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.
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