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Photograph of Hazel Green Town Hall
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Hazel Green Town Hall

Built in 1891 (Boom Town style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Hazel Green Town Hall is a historic building in the village of Hazel Green, Wisconsin. Built in 1891, the building housed both the town clerk's office and the Hazel Green Opera House, a civic auditorium.”

Wikipedia article Hazel Green Town Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1891, Boom Town style.

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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2130 N. Main St., Hazel Green, 53811
  • When was it listed? January 1989
  • Category. building
  • Village. Hazel Green village
  • When was it built? 1891
  • Architectural style. Boom Town style
  • National Register reference number. 88003231 - 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

18,193 words

The chapter on Hazel Green Village in History of Grant County, Wisconsin, published 1881 names Hazel Green. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The only municipal corporation of importance and influence in the town of Hazel Green owes its settlement, building up, progress and wealth to the lead mines, the early source of all advancement and centralization of resources in this portion of the country.

Passage source: History of Grant County, Wisconsin, published 1881.

In those days, the territory surrounding present Hazel Green was known as " Hard Scrabble," and arose from what is represented to have been a desperate contest for the possession of a mine, not unfreqiient at the time of which mention is here made. This took place, it is said, in 1825, at a point on the Branch, some distance beyond the Catholic Church erected in 1846, between James Hardy and Moses Meeker, in which the former was victorious. Those conversant with the melee denominated it the Hardy Scrape, whence it degenerated into " Hard Scrabble," under which it became famous throughout the lead mines, and was so known officially until 1838, when a post office was located at the present village, and a name appropriate, as also more in harmony with the surroundings, given to the infant settlement. Hard Scrabble, however, is still applied by many who flourished when the township was known as such, and decline to be governed by the changed order of affairs.

Passage source: History of Grant County, Wisconsin, published 1881.

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 Hazel Green Village - 18,193 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hazel Green Town Hall between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined4
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
31 May 2019Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources191476
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202013
24 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018006
4 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201808
15 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201804
8 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20109

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 194 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 194 workings within 5 miles of Hazel Green Town Hall: 116 past producers, 66 unknowns, 6 prospects, 5 occurrences. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead. 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
Birbeck ProspectIron, ZincProspect
Birkbeck MineIron, ZincPast Producer
E. G. Weinen & Sons QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johns QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Klar QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Byrnes MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1927, 1928
Crawford MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1931, 1932
Ensch ProspectZinc, LeadOccurrence
Fox River Valley MineZinc, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hazel Green, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHazel Green$110,000An estimated wind gust of 65 mph blew down trees and powerlines in and around Hazel Green. The winds also damaged farm buildings and homes.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHazel Green$50,000A roof was blown off a commercial building in Hazel Green.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHazel Green$15,000Emergency management reported a 70 mph wind gust in Hazel Green as well as a few trees down on power lines.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHazel Green$13,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHazel Green$12,000Emergency manager reported numerous power lines down between the cities of Kieler and Hazel Green.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHazel Green$10,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHazel Green$6,000no account filed
July 2011Flash FloodHazel Green$2,000With up to 10 inches of rain in the area, mud and debris covered portions of Sinsinawa Road southwest of Hazel Green forcing local officials to close the road.
May 2008HailHazel Green$2,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHazel Green$1,000Tree limbs were blown down just west of Hazel Green.
May 2000HailHazel Green$750no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindHazel Green$500An estimated 60 mph wind gust blew down small tree branches in Hazel Green.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHazel Green$500Trees were blown down.
May 2004HailHazel Green$500no account filed
May 2004HailHazel Green$500no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHazel Green-Emergency management measured a 72 mph wind gust in Hazel Green.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHazel Green-A weather station at the Hazel Green fire department reported a 75 mph wind gust.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHazel Green-A 60 mph wind gust was measured in Hazel Green.
April 2013HailHazel Green-Nickel to quarter sized hail fell for a couple of minutes in Hazel Green.
July 2011HailHazel Green-Nickel sized hail fell for 5 to 10 minutes.
July 2011FloodHazel Green-Heavy rain in Hazel Green caused water to cover portions of County Road W in the eastern part of town.
January 2008HailHazel Green-A Postal Service employee reported hail near Hazel Green penny sized or slightly larger.
March 2017HailHazel Green-no account filed
June 2015HailHazel Green-no account filed
May 2008HailHazel Green-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindHazel Green-no account filed
June 2002HailHazel Green-no account filed
May 1997HailHazel Green-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindHazel Green-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindHazel Green-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88003231 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant CountyAll 36 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.