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Photograph by Shawn Conrad, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

John Sweet Donald Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The John Sweet Donald Farmstead is a historic farm in Springdale, Wisconsin with surviving structures built as early as 1858. It is significant as the home and testing grounds of John Sweet Donald, a farmer, statesman, and educator of the Progressive Era.”

Wikipedia article John Sweet Donald Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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 7 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Donald, John Sweet, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1972 WI 92, Springdale, 53572
  • When was it listed? June 1984
  • Category. building
  • Town. Springdale town
  • National Register reference number. 84003633 - 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

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of John Sweet Donald Farmstead between 2004 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
22 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19321
7 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-1226
7 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-1228
29 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-1521
16 April 2004Debris and open burning12 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20177
4 March 2018Debris and open burning17 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-0792
28 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18-1102

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of John Sweet Donald Farmstead: 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
General Silica Division PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Henderson Lime PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jensen QuarryStoneUnknown
Mickelson QuarryStoneUnknown
Ringgenberg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Dane 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

6 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
Mount Horeb Public School3.4 miles2010
Gonstead Clinic of Chiropractic3.5 miles2023
Henry L. and Sarah Dahle House3.7 miles2003
Main Street Historic District4.0 miles2019
Eric and Jerome Skindrud Farm4.0 miles1994
Aslak Lie Cabin4.0 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84003633 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane CountyAll 238 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.