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Photograph of Copeland-Ryder Company
Photograph by James Steakley, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Copeland-Ryder Company

Built in 1885. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1885.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Copeland--Ryder Company - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 411 Wisconsin Dr., Jefferson, 53549
  • When was it listed? April 1989
  • Category. building
  • City. Jefferson city
  • When was it built? 1885
  • National Register reference number. 89000233 - 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

13 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Copeland-Ryder Company between 2014 and 2020, burning about 272 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources137
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources96
10 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources94
30 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJEFFERSON MARSH PEAT FIRE
2 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources69
2 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources68
7 April 2018Debris and open burning253 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesJEFFERSON MARSH 1
22 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources107

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Copeland-Ryder Company: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Strasburg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Aztalan Township QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Strasburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jefferson, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 4 flood, 2 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindJefferson$159,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindJefferson$75,000A twenty by twenty foot section of Jefferson High School's roof was torn off. In addition, many large trees and power lines were knocked down in and around the city of Jefferson.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindJefferson$70,000no account filed
August 2004Flash FloodJefferson$30,000no account filed
May 1999Flash FloodJefferson$30,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindJefferson$25,000Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled trees and resulted in damage to power-lines and cable-TV lines. Electrical customers were without power for several hours. Associated rain was described as going sideways in white sheets. Between Jeffeson and Helenville a couple roads were blocked with tree debris. About 2 inches of rain accompanied the storms.
April 2013FloodJefferson$10,000The Rock River near Jefferson experienced moderate flooding, cresting at 12.31 feet, or 2.31 feet over the flood stage of 10 feet, at 658 AM CDT on April 20th. The river remained above flood stage into May.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindJefferson$6,000Numerous trees and branches down in Jefferson.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindJefferson$6,000no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindJefferson$5,000Multiple trees down across Jefferson.
October 2019FloodJefferson$5,000The Rock River at Jefferson reached moderate flood stage, cresting at 11 feet the morning of October 12th. Floodwaters affect low lying areas of residential and business property in Jefferson. Water approaches the intersection of Main St. and E. Dane St. The retention pond at this intersection is full. South Center Ave. near the river is flooded and Riverview Drive near the wastewater plant is flooded. Riverfront Park is flooded.
March 2019FloodJefferson$5,000The Rock River at Jefferson reached moderate flood stage, cresting at 11.5 feet the late morning of March 16th. Floodwaters affect low lying areas of residential and business property in Jefferson. Water approaches the intersection of Main St. and E. Dane St. South Center Ave. near the river is flooded and E. Riverview Drive near the wastewater plant is flooded and closed. Flooding in Riverfront Park.
September 2018FloodJefferson$5,000The Rock River at Jefferson reached moderate flood stage, cresting at 11.72 feet the afternoon of September 8th. Floodwaters affect some low lying residences and businesses in Jefferson. Shallow floodwaters at the intersection of Main St. and E. Dane St., and nearby S. Center Ave. Riverview Drive near the wastewater plant is flooded and closed. Floodwaters affect portions of Highway K between Jefferson and Fort Atkinson.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindJefferson$5,000Trees down in Jefferson and east of Jefferson.
October 1996Thunderstorm WindJefferson$5,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindJefferson$4,000Sporadic tree damage including power lines down from Jefferson to Fort Atkinson.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindJefferson$2,000Twelve inch diamter tree down. Other branches down in the area.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindJefferson-A National Weather Service employee reported a thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 56 knots (65 mph).
June 2022HailJefferson-no account filed
April 2017HailJefferson-no account filed
May 2011HailJefferson-no account filed
May 2011HailJefferson-no account filed
March 2007HailJefferson-no account filed
March 2007HailJefferson-no account filed
April 2006HailJefferson-no account filed
May 2004Heavy RainJefferson-no account filed
May 2004HailJefferson-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindJefferson-no account filed
September 2000HailJefferson-no account filed
August 1998HailJefferson-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindJefferson-no account filed
September 1994HailJefferson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Jefferson High School0.2 miles2001
Jefferson Public Library0.3 miles1980
Main Street Commercial Historic District0.4 miles1998
Jefferson Fire Station0.4 miles1984
Schweiger Industries Plant III0.4 miles2018
Puerner Block-Breunig's Brewery0.4 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89000233 in Record Group 79.
Jefferson CountyAll 52 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.