BlockFrom the record
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Taylor County · listed in 1984 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Mondeaux Dam Recreation Area
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Roughly bounded by Mondeaux River and Forest Rd., Westboro, 54490
- When was it listed? August 1984
- Category. district
- Town. Westboro town
- National Register reference number. 84003784 - 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 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Mondeaux Dam Recreation Area between 1996 and 2012, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 July 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.2 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 July 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | MONDEAUX ISLAND |
| 5 May 1999 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | HIGHWAY D |
| 5 May 1999 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | CAMPER |
| 9 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | HIGHWAY D |
| 9 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 April 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | MONDEAUX |
Storms near this property
10 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westboro, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westboro | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westboro | $4,000 | Numerous trees were blown down in Westboro. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westboro | $2,500 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westboro | $2,000 | Amateur radio operators reported several trees blown down across County Road D. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westboro | $1,000 | Trees were blown down in Westboro. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westboro | $1,000 | Trees were blown down and two fields had flattened corn. Damage was also reported along County Road M towards the Lincoln County line. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Westboro | - | The public reported 0.75 inch hail in Westboro. Reported via mPING. |
| July 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Westboro | - | A funnel cloud was sighted over Westboro. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Westboro | - | Quarter sized hail fell north of Westboro. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Westboro | - | Half dollar sized hail was reported in Westboro. |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84003784 in Record Group 79. |
| Taylor County | All 7 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.
- 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.