Walter and Mabel Fromm House

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Marathon County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1928.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Fromm, Walter and Mabel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off WI 107, Hamburg
When was it listed? June 1982
Category. building
Town. Hamburg town
When was it built? 1928
National Register reference number. 82000682 - 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

65 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Walter and Mabel Fromm House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	22
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	COMBINE 1
22 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	COMBINE 2
18 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	COUNTY A FIRE
10 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	2.4 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 July 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 July 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 July 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HIGHWAY F FIRE

Every fire recorded in Marathon 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 Walter and Mabel Fromm House: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Alton Zettler-Athens Sand & Gvl Qy	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Lincoln Drive Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Marathon County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamburg, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Hamburg	$258,000	A tornado developed about 2 miles north of Hamburg at 6:08 pm CDT (1708 CST) and moved northeast into Lincoln County at 6:10 pm CDT (1710 CST). Pine trees were uprooted and large branches were broken in the path of the storm (DI 28, DOD 2-3). A house sustained damage to its siding (DI 2, DOD 2) and several barns were blown down or lost their roofs (DI 1, DOD 2-3). The average width of the tornado in Marathon County was 100 yards. The tornado reached EF3 intensity in Lincoln County.
March 2016	Flood	Hamburg	$2,500	Flood waters washed out the intersection of 13th Lane and County Line Road, along the Lincoln County line.
May 2022	Hail	Hamburg	-	Quarter size hail fell near Hamburg.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamburg	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Hamburg. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamburg	-	no account filed
August 1995	Hail	Hamburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marathon 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Fromm Brothers Fur and Ginseng Farm	0.5 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000682 in Record Group 79.
Marathon County	All 33 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.