BlockFrom the record
One of 25 National Register listings published here for Waupaca County · listed in 1987 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
J. & C. Wipf Mills
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- Listed as. Wipf, J. & C., Mills - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 280 N. Main St., Iola, 54945
- When was it listed? December 1987
- Category. district
- Village. Iola village
- National Register reference number. 87002108 - 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
111 wordsThis property stands in Iola Village. History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, published 1890 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 Iola Village - 111 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
89 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of J. & C. Wipf Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 37 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | KNUTSON RD FIRE |
| 29 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | G-GG FIRE |
| 25 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BREKKE LAKE |
| 3 July 2012 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | TRESNESS RD. |
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 J. & C. Wipf Mills: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elm Valley Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
32 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iola, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 15 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | 1 hurt | Strong winds from thunderstorms caused a tree branch to fall on a tent, injuring a male camper. The man was camped near Iola to take part in the Iola Old Car Show. The strong winds also caused several canopies to break loose, damaging vehicles at the show. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | $1,380,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | $150,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Iola, including some large trees that were knocked onto houses and power lines. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree, about a foot in diameter, in Iola. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | $7,500 | Thunderstorm winds downed a dozen trees and power lines north of Iola. One of the trees landed on a garage. The time of this event was estimated based on radar data. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Iola | - | Half dollar size hail on the south side of Iola. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees near Iola. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees near Iola. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and power lines near Iola. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Iola | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail and heavy rain as it passed north of Iola. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | - | Thunderstorm winds downed tree limbs and power lines in Iola. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | - | Thunderstorm winds downed multiple 16-inch diameter tree limbs on the south side of the city. The downed limbs blocked State Highway 49. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Iola | - | Nickel size hail fell north of Iola. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Iola | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that flooded farm fields and partially flooded a basement northeast of Iola. A storm spotter four miles northeast of Iola measured 3.25 inches of rain in a 24-hour period. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Iola | - | Penny size hail fell at Iola. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Iola | - | Thunderstorms near Iola produced penny size hail and a measured wind gust of 56 mph. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Iola | - | Quarter size hail fell north of Scandinavia. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | - | Law enforcement reported that trees were blown down and power knocked out in the town of Iola. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | - | Thunderstorm winds uprooted several trees near Iola. |
| July 2007 | Heavy Rain | Iola | - | An amateur radio operator measured rainfall of 4.45 inches in a little more than 2 hours. The heavy rain resulted in some street flooding in Iola. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Iola | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Iola | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Iola | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iola | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Iola | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Iola | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Iola | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Iola | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Iola | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Lightning | Iola | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Iola | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87002108 in Record Group 79. |
| Waupaca County | All 25 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.