McFarland House

Built in 1857 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The McFarland House is a large Greek Revival-styled house built in 1857 in McFarland, Wisconsin by a founder and the namesake of the community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and on the State Register of Historic Places the following year.”
Wikipedia article McFarland House (McFarland, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1988 · category: District · built in 1857, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5923 Exchange St., McFarland, 53558
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. district
Village. McFarland village
When was it built? 1857
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88002228 - 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

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of McFarland House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 18 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	12
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	1
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
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	256
28 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1824118
3 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1919678
3 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1818632
29 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	321998
19 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019367
25 July 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	186
23 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	184

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of McFarland House: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hawkinson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kampmeier Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Williams Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McFarland, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	McFarland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Edwards-Larson House	under 500 feet	2021
Waubesa School	1.1 miles	1997
Drohman Cabin	2.0 miles	1981
Tompkins-Brindler Mound Group	3.4 miles	2003
Outlet Mound	3.5 miles	2003
Ray S. and Theo P. Owen House	3.8 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002228 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane County	All 238 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.