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One of 60 National Register listings published here for Sheboygan County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Onion River Flouring Mill/Grist Mill
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Hwy 57, Waldo, 53093
- When was it listed? December 1984
- Category. building
- Also known as. 19th Century Grist and Flouring Mills of Sheboygan County TR
- Village. Waldo village
- National Register reference number. 84000679 - 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 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Onion River Flouring Mill/Grist Mill between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 352 |
| 23 June 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 189 |
| 7 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 127 |
| 17 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1511 |
| 16 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1506 |
| 12 May 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 23 |
| 8 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1017 |
| 7 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 94 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Onion River Flouring Mill/Grist Mill: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bucholz Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Cascade Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Skelton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waldo, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Waldo | $402,300 | Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding across parts of eastern Sheboygan County. Water depths on road surfaces reached 3 feet or more and there were gravel washouts. Erosion damage was noted at Kohler Andrae State Park. Some farm fields remained flooded into early July. The breakdown for residential home losses were: 30 minimally affected, and 30 with minor damage (total of $148.5 thousand for home losses). There were no business losses. Crop losses were estimated at $300 thousand. Public sector damage was about $253.9 thousand. A couple roads and bridges sustained minor damage. |
| August 1996 | Lightning | Waldo | $130,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | $60,000 | A swath of structural damage to barns and outbuildings in the Lima area. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | $30,000 | A barn blown down and two 2X4s blown into a nearby house. |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Waldo | $10,000 | Heavy rains due to training thunderstorms resulted in brief flash flooding in on the northwest side of Waldo. There were gravel shoulder washouts and mud deposits on roads near a creek that feeds into Waldo Mill Pond. Water depths on roads were at least 6 inches. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | $1,000 | A large tree down. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Fire officials reported tree damage by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 56 knots (65 mph). |
| May 2006 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church | 4.1 miles | 1983 |
 | Henry H. Huson House and Water Tower | 5.2 miles | 1980 |
 | Hotel Laack | 5.3 miles | 1985 |
| Downtown Plymouth Historic District | 5.3 miles | 2016 | |
 | Plymouth Post Office | 5.4 miles | 2000 |
 | S and R Cheese Company | 5.4 miles | 2017 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84000679 in Record Group 79. |
| Sheboygan County | All 60 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.