BlockFrom the record
One of 153 National Register listings published here for Waukesha County · listed in 1988 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Statesan Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- Address. Boys School Rd., Wales, 53018
- When was it listed? April 1988
- Category. district
- Town. Delafield town
- National Register reference number. 88000454 - 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
35,329 wordsThis property stands in Delafield Town. 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 Delafield Town - 35,329 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
15 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Statesan Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 381 |
| 19 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1839 |
| 30 June 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1801911 |
| 28 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 190 |
| 9 April 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 157 |
| 4 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1800908 |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 150 |
| 22 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1000111 |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Statesan Historic District: 5 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genesee Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Dousman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Evans Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Genesee Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| North Sawyer Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pit Wolf Constr. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Vulcan Dousman Pit 422 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Waukesha Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wales, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Wales | 1 killed, $25,000 | Heavy rains led to flash flooding that generated water levels of 2 to 4 feet deep on many low-lying roads, especially near existing lakes. Several vehicles stalled in the deep water and were damaged. A 68-year-old man left a tavern around 2245 CST and drove into a flooded area. He attempted to walk/swim away from his vehicle and drowned. |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wales | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wales | $3,000 | Many tree limbs down in Wales on multiple properties. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wales | $3,000 | Several trees down. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wales | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Wales | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Wales | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Wales | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Heavy Rain | Wales | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Wales | - | 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dr. Alfred L. Castleman House | 2.4 miles | 1996 |
 | Hawks Inn | 2.6 miles | 1972 |
 | Delafield Fish Hatchery | 2.7 miles | 1981 |
 | St. John Chrysostom Church | 2.8 miles | 1972 |
 | St. John's Military Academy | 2.9 miles | 1977 |
 | Bishopstead | 3.7 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88000454 in Record Group 79. |
| Waukesha County | All 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.