Waushara County Courthouse, Waushara County Sheriff's Residence and Jail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The Waushara County Courthouse, Waushara County Sheriff's Residence and Jail is a pair of buildings in Wautoma, Wisconsin that are together listed on the U.S.”
Wikipedia article Waushara County Courthouse, Waushara County Sheriff's Residence and Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Waushara County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82000729- 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
229 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Waushara County Courthouse, Waushara County Sheriff's Residence and Jail
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 248 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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
86
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
52
Equipment and vehicle use
27
Arson/incendiarism
16
Misuse of fire by a minor
13
Power generation/transmission/distribution
9
Natural
7
Recreation and ceremony
6
Fireworks
4
Other causes
4
Smoking
4
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Waushara County Courthouse, Waushara County Sheriff's Residence and Jail: 2 producers, 1 unknown.
2 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
Wautoma, the town this property stands in, in 52 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 31 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 lightning, 2 flood.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
Thunderstorm wind gusts of 80 to 90 mph downed numerous trees north and northwest of Wautoma, including a 100-year-old oak tree. Many trees were knocked down along Highway 73, some blocking the road.
As much as 4.50 inches of rain fell in about two hours around Wautoma between 7:30 and 9:30 PM. The heavy rain caused waters to rapidly rise on roads in Wautoma, temporarily closing them. Two basements also experienced flooding.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees at scattered locations around the county. Heavy rainfall with the storms resulted in some street flooding in Wautoma.
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.
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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