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Photograph of Hyde Chapel
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Hyde Chapel

Built in 1862 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Hyde Chapel is located in Ridgeway, Wisconsin. Originally a place of worship for Congregationalists, it also become open to Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists and Catholics.”

Wikipedia article Hyde Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Iowa County · listed in 1988 · category: District · built in 1862, Greek Revival architecture.

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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1 mi. S of CTH H on CTH T, Ridgeway, 53582
  • When was it listed? October 1988
  • Category. district
  • Town. Ridgeway town
  • When was it built? 1862
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88002002 - 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

10,004 words

This property stands in Ridgeway Town. History of Iowa County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...biographical Sketches.., published 1881 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 Ridgeway Town - 10,004 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Hyde Chapel between 1992 and 2019, burning about 218 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
Debris and open burning62
Equipment and vehicle use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
3 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFAR LOOK FIRE
7 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesERDMAN BALER

Every fire recorded in Iowa County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hyde Chapel: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc. 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
Demby Weist MineLead, ZincUnknownGalena

Every working recorded in Iowa County

Storms near this property

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridgeway, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2006HailRidgeway$4,440,000no account filed
October 1996LightningRidgeway$100,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindRidgeway$10,000Many trees down.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindRidgeway$3,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRidgeway$2,500no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRidgeway$2,000Multiple trees down or damaged.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindRidgeway$500no account filed
April 2026HailRidgeway-Public report of 1 inch diameter hail near Ridgeway. Time confirmed via radar data.
June 2006Tornado (F0)Ridgeway-A tornado spun up 5.6 miles NNW of Ridgeway at 1814CST just south of Erdman Rd. (or about 1.5 WNW of an unincorporated hamlet of Hyde). It headed southeast for 2.7 miles and dissipated 3.3 miles NNE of Ridgeway at 1825 CST near a big curve on Dugway Rd. This tornado resulted in only minor tree damage and was rated F0 with winds around 50 knots (58 mph).
June 2009HailRidgeway-no account filed
May 2008HailRidgeway-no account filed
March 2005HailRidgeway-no account filed
May 2002HailRidgeway-no account filed
May 2002Funnel CloudRidgeway-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindRidgeway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iowa 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
Thomas Stone Barn4.9 miles2001
Cassidy Farmhouse5.0 miles1986
Grove Street Historic District5.1 miles1986
Roberts House5.1 miles1988
Harris House5.1 miles1986
Kittleson House5.1 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88002002 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Iowa CountyAll 30 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.