Rural on the Crystal Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Waupaca County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Arbor St., Rapley St., Rural Rd., and Cleghorn St., Rural, 54981
When was it listed? April 1989
Category. district
Town. Dayton town
National Register reference number. 89000231 - 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

247 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 247 fires within 5 miles of Rural on the Crystal Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 589 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 11 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	75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Natural	13
Fireworks	13
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Smoking	8
Other causes	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	CHRISTIE
23 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BURNING BEE
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Waupaca 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 Rural on the Crystal Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Q Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Waupaca County

Storms near this property

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rural, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Rural	$75,000	Thunderstorm winds downed about two dozen trees, some more than a foot in diameter, near the corner of Holmnlane and Stratton Lake Roads, in southwest Waupaca County. Most of the fallen trees were uprooted in the very wet, sandy soil. Fallen trees damaged a garage and caused roof damage to four cottages. The high winds also flattened nearby wheat fields.
April 2022	Hail	Rural	-	Quarter size hail fell near Rural.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Rural	-	Thunderstorm winds snapped multiple trees near Waupaca. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2018	Hail	Rural	-	Half dollar size hail fell southwest of Waupaca, near the Waushara County line. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rural	-	A tree was blown down on a tent at the Twin Lakes Campground. Large branches were also snapped. No injuries were reported.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rural	-	Law enforcement reported a half dozen trees were knocked down 6 miles southwest of the city of Waupaca.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Rural	-	Two large trees were uprooted by straight-line thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Waupaca 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
Halfway House	under 500 feet	1982
Old Hospital	1.7 miles	1985
Veterans Home Chapel	1.8 miles	1985
Commandant's Residence Home	1.9 miles	1985
Veterans Cottages Historic District	1.9 miles	1985
Henry and Elizabeth Delong House	4.5 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000231 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.