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One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1925.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Thomas Bossert House
Built in 1925. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Bossert, Thomas, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 2614 E. Menlo Blvd., Shorewood, 53211
- When was it listed? September 1985
- Category. building
- Also known as. Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwaukee County TR
- Village. Shorewood village
- When was it built? 1925
- National Register reference number. 85002018 - 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
20 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Bossert House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1778249 |
| 7 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1767699 |
| 7 August 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1767727 |
| 13 August 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1769924 |
| 29 July 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1764515 |
| 10 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1804397 |
| 8 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1746257 |
| 19 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1750036 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Thomas Bossert House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Thorium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerac Inc. | REE, Thorium | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shorewood, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 2 lightning, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2018 | Lightning | Shorewood | $405,000 | A home fire caused by a lightning strike resulted in the total loss of the home. |
| July 1997 | Lightning | Shorewood | $25,000 | Lightning induced fire destoyed a garage and parked car. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shorewood | $15,000 | Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts up to 56 knots (65 mph) toppled several large trees and damaged some power-lines. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Shorewood | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Henry A. Meyer House | under 500 feet | 1985 |
 | Seneca W. & Bertha Hatch House | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
 | Thomas A. Greene Memorial Museum | 0.4 miles | 1993 |
 | Milwaukee-Downer "Quad" | 0.4 miles | 1974 |
 | Alfred M. Hoelz House | 0.5 miles | 1985 |
 | Shorewood Village Hall | 0.5 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85002018 in Record Group 79. |
| Milwaukee County | All 300 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.