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Photograph of Washington Avenue Historic District
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Washington Avenue Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Washington Avenue Historic District is the historic center of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, the location of the early industry and commerce that was key to the community's development. The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1986.”

Wikipedia article Washington Avenue Historic District (Cedarburg, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Ozaukee County · listed in 1986 · 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

Fires near this property

16 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Washington Avenue Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources180850
23 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190704
31 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19700
25 May 2020Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20675
4 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190468
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018057
3 April 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources200365
28 April 2018Debris and open burning6.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18486

Every fire recorded in Ozaukee County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Washington Avenue Historic District: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cedarburg StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
H.F. Prahl Corp. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maple Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rowe Sand and Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ozaukee County

Storms near this property

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedarburg, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 9 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCedarburg2 hurt, $500Powerful thunderstorms winds knocked down a few large trees, andn blew down some tents at the annual Strawberry Festival. Two people at the festival were injured by broken tree branches and received medical treatment for minor injuries.
August 2006LightningCedarburg$75,000Lightning struck a downtown Cedarburg building's chimney. The collapsed chimney then tore a hole in the roof, allowing rain water to run into the building and damage some contents.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCedarburg$50,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCedarburg$30,000no account filed
May 2012LightningCedarburg$20,000The Ozaukee County Sheriff Department reported a fire ignited by a lightning strike in the 3200 block of Twin Creeks Road in the town of Cedarburg.
May 2000HailCedarburg$10,000no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindCedarburg$5,000Tress and power lines were reported to be blown down by powerful thunderstorm winds by the public in Cedarburg.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCedarburg$5,000Trees and power-lines reported down.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCedarburg$4,000Several trees and power lines down across the southwest side of Cedarburg.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCedarburg-Straight-line winds estimated at 60 mph.
May 2012HailCedarburg-A report from the public via Twitter stated 1.25 inch diameter hail fell in Cedarburg.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCedarburg-Trees down.
April 2020HailCedarburg-no account filed
May 2017HailCedarburg-no account filed
July 2008HailCedarburg-no account filed
March 2007HailCedarburg-no account filed
September 2006HailCedarburg-no account filed
July 2005HailCedarburg-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindCedarburg-no account filed
June 1999HailCedarburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ozaukee 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hilgen and Wittenberg Woolen Millunder 500 feet1978
Cedarburg Mill0.3 miles1974
Columbia Historic District0.4 miles1992
Wayside House0.7 miles1982
Concordia Mill1.5 miles1974
Hamilton Historic District1.5 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000218 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ozaukee CountyAll 38 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.