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Dansk Evangelical Lutheran Kirke

Built in 1910 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Dansk Evangelical Lutheran Kirke is a Gothic Revival-styled Lutheran church built in 1910 by the Danish-speaking congregation in Hartland, Wisconsin, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and on the State Register of Historic Places the following year.”

Wikipedia article Dansk Evangelical Lutheran Kirke, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 153 National Register listings published here for Waukesha County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1910, Gothic Revival.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 400 W. Capitol Dr., Hartland, 53029
  • When was it listed? April 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Hartland MRA
  • Village. Hartland village
  • When was it built? 1910
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 86003422 - 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.

The ground it stands on

19,954 words

This property stands in Hartland Village. The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Hartland Village - 19,954 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

22 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Dansk Evangelical Lutheran Kirke between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
16 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources381
1 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources222
1 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources242
8 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900183
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800143
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800812
28 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190
2 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources125

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dansk Evangelical Lutheran Kirke: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
North Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sussex PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this property

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartland, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 15 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 lightning, 2 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006HailHartland$4,440,000no account filed
November 2005LightningHartland$1,070,000no account filed
July 2000Flash FloodHartland$200,000no account filed
August 2007Flash FloodHartland$100,000Several rounds of thunderstorms with heavy rains on top of a saturated ground resulted in scattered flash flooding from the Hartland area to the City of Waukesha. Many roads in this area had at least 6 inches to 1 foot of fast flowing water covering them. At least a couple dozen homes in this area had basement flooding and sewage backups and needed to be pumped out. A vehicle got stuck in 3 to 4 feet deep the flood waters in the Village of Pewaukee, where sandbagging took place. Soil erosion and crop damage was also noted.||August, 2007, rainfall totals include: 10.72 in Oconomowoc, and 9.62 in Waukesha. In Milwaukee County, Milwaukee Mitchell Field measured 7.92 for the month, which makes August, 2007 the 4th wettest August in Milwaukee.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindHartland$100,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindHartland$50,000no account filed
October 2022Thunderstorm WindHartland$15,000A swath of scattered trees uprooted or snapped.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHartland$10,000Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled large trees and broken branches pulled some power-lines down.
August 2000LightningHartland$10,000no account filed
June 1997LightningHartland$5,000Lightning struck a homes chimney ,sending pieces flying, damaging the roof and wiping out the utility lines to the home.
August 2002LightningHartland$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHartland$5,000no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindHartland$3,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHartland$2,000Scattered tree damage in Hartland.
March 2016LightningHartland$1,000Lightning struck a tree and then traveled into the ground rupturing a gas line. This sparked a fire in the front yard of the residence. Two homes were evacuated for a short time. No homes were damaged and no one was injured.
July 2011LightningHartland$1,000Newspapers reported lightning struck a power pole that knocked out power to residents in Hartland for 3 hours.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHartland$1,000no account filed
February 1999FloodHartland$1,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHartland$500no account filed
September 1997Strong WindHartland$200no account filed
April 2026HailHartland-Public report of 1 inch diameter hail in Hartland.
June 2008HailHartland-Hail size ranged from 0.75 to 3.00 inches in diameter.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindHartland-Large trees were toppled by powerful thunderstorm winds.
June 2024HailHartland-no account filed
September 2022HailHartland-no account filed
August 2014HailHartland-no account filed
August 2013HailHartland-no account filed
May 2011HailHartland-no account filed
May 2011HailHartland-no account filed
May 2011HailHartland-no account filed
July 2007HailHartland-no account filed
March 2007HailHartland-no account filed
May 2006HailHartland-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHartland-no account filed
July 1996Funnel CloudHartland-no account filed
August 1995HailHartland-no account filed
April 1995HailHartland-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindHartland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Churchunder 500 feet1986
Trapp Filling Station0.1 miles1986
Hartland Railroad Depot0.2 miles1988
Sarah Belle Van Buren House0.3 miles1986
Bank of Hartland0.3 miles1988
Sign of the Willows0.4 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86003422 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Waukesha CountyAll 153 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.