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Nils Skumsrud House

Built in 1853. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Skumsrud Heritage Farm is a Norwegian immigrant homestead located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Coon Valley, in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States.”
Wikipedia article Skumsrud Heritage Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Vernon County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1853.

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.
Listed as. Skumsrud, Nils, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. SE of jct. of SR 162 and U.S. 14/61, Coon Valley, 54623
When was it listed? July 1990
Category. building
Town. Hamburg town
When was it built? 1853
National Register reference number. 90000571 - 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Nils Skumsrud House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 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/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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
16 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018-17
19 April 2020	Smoking	2.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	202009
10 April 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	182020
18 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018-10

Every fire recorded in Vernon 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 Nils Skumsrud House: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Coon Valley Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ober Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Zogg Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Vernon County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coon Valley, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 1997: 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
August 1997	Hail	Coon Valley	$18,000	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Coon Valley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vernon 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 90000571 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Vernon County	All 12 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.