Thomas Henry Thompson House

Built in 1882 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Thomas Henry Thompson House is a historic house in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, United States, built in 1882.”
Wikipedia article Thomas Henry Thompson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1882, Italianate architecture.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Thompson, Thomas Henry, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 205 South Adams St., St. Croix Falls, 54024
When was it listed? March 1984
Category. building
City. St. Croix Falls city
When was it built? 1882
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 84003777 - 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Henry Thompson House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	8
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
7 May 2019	Fireworks	1.8 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18D0124
3 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20D0111
3 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19G0107
10 May 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	92

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Thomas Henry Thompson House: 12 occurrences, 8 past producers, 4 producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bryan Rock Products Inc Dresser Jct	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Prospect Near Osceola	Copper	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near Osceola	Copper	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near St Croix Fa	Copper	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near St Croix Fa	Copper	Occurrence
Centuria Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Centuria Gravel Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Centuria Gravel Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Centuria Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Deer Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Cushing Land Agency Building	under 500 feet	2005
St. Croix Falls Auditorium	under 500 feet	2007
Lamar Community Center	3.7 miles	1982
Alvah A. Heald House	6.7 miles	1985
First Baptist Church	6.9 miles	2008
Geiger Building-Old Polk County Courthouse	6.9 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003777 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Polk County	All 13 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.