Larson Brothers Airport

Built in 1922. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Larson Brothers Airport is an airport in rural Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States along the former Wisconsin Highway 150. It was the first airport in the county and one of the first in the state outside of Milwaukee.”
Wikipedia article Larson Brothers Airport, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 85 National Register listings published here for Winnebago County · listed in 1984 · category: District · built in 1922.

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

The listing

Address. WI 150, Clayton, 54947
When was it listed? April 1984
Category. district
Town. Clayton town
When was it built? 1922
National Register reference number. 84003825 - 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

29 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Larson Brothers Airport between 1999 and 2020, burning about 456 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	1
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
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	106
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	202039
17 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	60
29 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	3
23 June 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	88
9 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	71
5 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	36
5 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2

Every fire recorded in Winnebago County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Larson Brothers Airport: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Doro Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Perry Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Island Road Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
John Kelly Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Larsen Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Medina Gravel Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
S Schuster Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Winnebago 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

3 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
Frank Whiting Boathouse	3.4 miles	2011
Vining, Gorham, P., House	7.0 miles	1983
Augustin Grignon Hotel	7.2 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003825 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Winnebago County	All 85 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.