Mecikalski General Store, Saloon, and Boardinghouse

Built in 1899. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1899.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 465 Max Rd., Jennings, 54463
When was it listed? March 1984
Category. building
Town. Schoepke town
When was it built? 1899
National Register reference number. 84003751 - 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Mecikalski General Store, Saloon, and Boardinghouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Fireworks	4
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Other causes	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
25 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PILE
7 July 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2009	Recreation and ceremony	3.7 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	JACK PINE LANE
5 July 2002	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 July 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 June 1998	Other causes	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 June 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Mecikalski General Store, Saloon, and Boardinghouse: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mole Lake Prospect	Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold	Unknown
Wolf River Prospect	Zinc, Copper	Unknown
Bishop Road Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Mud Creek Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pelican Lake Gravel Deposit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Pelican Lake Gravel Deposit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Pelican Lake Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Pergande Road Gravel Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pergande Road Gravel Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pratt Junction Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida 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
	Pelican Lake Hotel	4.2 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003751 in Record Group 79.
Oneida County	All 20 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.