Ridge Avenue Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Ridge Avenue Historic District in Galesville, Wisconsin is a 5 acres (2.0 ha) historic district which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The district contains eleven contributing properties; they are primarily located on Ridge Avenue between 4th and 6th Streets.”
Wikipedia article Ridge Avenue Historic District (Galesville, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Trempealeau County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 11 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly Ridge Ave. from 4th to 6th Sts., Galesville, 54630
When was it listed? September 1984
Category. district
Also known as. Galesville MRA
Town. Gale town
National Register reference number. 84003792 - 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Ridge Avenue Historic District between 2018 and 2020, 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 June 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19-0471
13 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	513192
26 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	14 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	426181
22 March 2018	Smoking	5.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18-0190
20 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	320181
19 December 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1219192
17 October 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1017201

Every fire recorded in Trempealeau County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Ridge Avenue Historic District: 16 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Archie Britt Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Archie Britt Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Black River Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
A Irvine Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
A Rosenvold Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Blankenhorn Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
C Hovell Shale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
C Sahlstrom Dolomite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Dereen Farms Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
L Grover Shale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Trempealeau County

Storms near this property

39 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galesville, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 3 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	2 hurt, $50,000	Two injuries occurred as severe storms with damaging winds rolled across the southern sections of Trempealeau County. In Galesville, one person was injured by flying glass. Another person was injured when a tree fell on a camper in the Township of Gale. Several buildings were damaged and numerous trees were blown down by the damaging winds.
July 2017	Lightning	Galesville	$200,000	A lightning strike started an apartment building fire just west of Galesville. Six apartment units were a total loss as a result of the fire.
July 2023	Hail	Galesville	$20,000	Trained spotter reported tea cup sized hail near Galesville.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	$20,000	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Galesville	$15,000	Public reported golf ball sized hail near Galesville.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	$15,000	Farm outbuildings were damaged south of Galesville.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	$10,000	Tree fell on a car. No one was reported injured.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	$5,000	Trees and power lines were blown down in Galesville.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	$5,000	Trees were damaged from the Galesville area northeast toward Ettrick.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	$3,500	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Galesville	$3,000	no account filed
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	$2,000	Pine trees were snapped east of Galesville.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	$1,000	Trees were blown down onto Highway 53 blocking a lane of traffic.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	$1,000	A thunderstorm wind gust knocked down trees near Galesville.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	$750	no account filed
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	$200	A picnic table was flipped over and pea size hail fell in Galesville.
October 2023	Flood	Galesville	-	Law enforcement reported an ongoing rescue from a vehicle stuck in high water over the roadway.
October 2023	Heavy Rain	Galesville	-	A volunteer observer reported 4.84 inches of rainfall near Galesville.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	-	A volunteer observer reported a large fallen tree near Galesville.
April 2022	Hail	Galesville	-	Quarter sized hail fell in Galesville.
May 2021	Hail	Galesville	-	Quarter sized hail fell in Galesville.
June 2021	Hail	Galesville	-	Dime sized hail along with a wind gust of 50 mph occurred near Galesville.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	-	An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred near Galesville.
June 2020	Heavy Rain	Galesville	-	Near Galesville, 3.15 inches of rain fell.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Galesville	-	Locally heavy rain pushed small creeks out of their banks across southern Trempealeau County. Water over the road caused County Highway T to be closed in several locations north of Galesville.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	-	An estimated 60 mile per hour wind gust occurred in Galesville.
September 2010	Heavy Rain	Galesville	-	The storm total rainfall amounted to 5.55 inches.
July 2015	Hail	Galesville	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Galesville	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Galesville	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Galesville	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Galesville	-	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Galesville	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Galesville	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Galesville	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Galesville	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Galesville	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Galesville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trempealeau 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
Tollef Jensen House	0.2 miles	1984
John Bohrnstedt House	0.2 miles	1984
Downtown Historic District	0.3 miles	1984
Bartlett Blacksmith Shop-Scandinavian Hotel	0.4 miles	1984
Cance, John, F., House	0.4 miles	1984
Gale College Historic District	0.7 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003792 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Trempealeau 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.
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.