La Crosse County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy
Built in 1909 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
From the record
“The La Crosse County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy was a historic structure in Onalaska, Wisconsin. It was designed by architects Parkinson & Dockendorff from La Crosse, Wisconsin.”
Wikipedia article La Crosse County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 60 National Register listings published here for La Crosse County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1909, Gothic Revival, by Parkinson & Dockendorff.
National Register reference number.87000438- 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
28 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 28 fires within 5 miles of La Crosse County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined
11
Debris and open burning
5
Arson/incendiarism
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
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
9 September 2003
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
LaCrosse District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of La Crosse County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy: 4 past producers.
None of them 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Onalaska, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 23 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 2 flood, 2 lightning.
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.
A house that was built on a sunken lot had a basement wall collapse after four inches of rain fell on the area. In addition to the basement damage, the master bedroom and bathroom, laundry room and living room were ruined.
Numerous trees were blown down in Onalaska along Oak Forest Drive with some of these trees landing on houses. The Onalaska fire department responded to 21 calls because of the storm. There were scattered power outages throughout the city that affected around 700 customers.
Several trees and power lines were blown down in Onalaska. Some of the trees landed on parked cars and one city street was shut down due to all the damage.
An estimated 70 mph wind gust snapped off and uprooted numerous trees along the shoreline of Lake Onalaska. Numerous other trees were either uprooted or snapped off along Well Street between Oak and 11th Avenues in Onalaska. Also, a 100 year old maple tree went down on top of a house damaging the roof.
Numerous tree branches were blown down and moved a distance of at least 100 feet. A electrical transformer was also blown out on the northeast side of Onalaska.
Wind gusts from a thunderstorm knocked down several trees on the north side of Onalaska. Dime sized hail also fell along with 3.5 inches of rain which created some minor street flooding.
During the early evening, a cold air funnel touched down in a residential area in Onalaska (La Crosse County). The resultant weak tornado then traveled east approximately one-quarter of a mile before lifting into the clouds. An eyewitness reported seeing a swimming pool cover, tar paper, and twigs swirling around at about 200 feet in the air. The tornado was said to have made a high pitch whistling noise and looked like a white pillar reaching about 300 feet into the air. This was the first tornado touchdown in Wisconsin for the 1995 convective season.
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.
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.
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