BlockFrom the record
One of 85 National Register listings published here for Winnebago County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Black Oak School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 5028 S. Green Bay Rd., Nekimi, 54902
- When was it listed? June 1987
- Category. building
- Town. Nekimi town
- National Register reference number. 87001062 - 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
10 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Black Oak School between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 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 | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 July 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 195013 |
| 5 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 70 |
| 24 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 89 |
| 1 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 42 |
| 6 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 202385 |
| 6 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 33 |
| 17 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 149 |
| 16 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 202595 |
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 Black Oak School: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vulcan Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Robert Lutz House | 4.2 miles | 1982 |
| Smith School | 4.3 miles | 2021 | |
| Baumann Block | 4.8 miles | 2024 | |
 | Security Bank | 4.9 miles | 1994 |
 | Brooklyn No. 4 Fire House | 5.1 miles | 1996 |
 | Abraham Briggs Bowen House | 5.3 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87001062 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.