Built in 1898 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“The Oregon Masonic Hall or Oregon Masonic Lodge is a highly-intact 1898 building in Oregon, Wisconsin - with the second story finely decorated using cream and red brick and red sandstone. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”
Wikipedia article Oregon Masonic Hall (Oregon, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1898, Queen Anne style.
National Register reference number.92000803- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Oregon Masonic Lodge
between 2014 and 2020, burning about 12 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
5
Debris and open burning
4
Smoking
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Oregon Masonic Lodge: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Oregon, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 21 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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.
A swath of sporadic to continuous tornado damage. There was extensive tree damage including numerous large pine trees snapped. Half of a roof was torn off of a large barn and half a roof torn off a pole barn. A grain elevator was blown off of a silo. A six inch diameter tree landed on a car.
Flash flooding occurred in the Oregon vicinity due to repeated thunderstorms with heavy rains on top of a saturated ground. In Oregon, numerous roads were covered with fast-flowing water depths of 6 inches to 1 foot. Sandbagging also took place to control the flash flooding. Hourly rainfall rates were 1.5 to 2 inches based on WSR-88D Doppler radar estimates. Soil erosion and crop damage also occurred on several other farms in that area. Additionally, a few basements had water damage to contents. All creeks and streams around Oregon were two to three feet above flood stage.
A trained spotter reported numerous trees and power lines downed along a path from Oregon to northeast of Albion from damaging severe thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 knots (75 mph). The winds tore some siding off a home in Oregon. Heavy rain caused ponding of water on area roadways, with water over the curb on some streets in Oregon.
Powerful thunderstorm winds pushed over dozens of large trees, and broken tree branches snapped several power-lines in a 5-mile-wide swath. In Stoughton, the winds knocked over an empty semi-trailer which then impacted and damaged two other trailers. Also, a road sign in Stoughton was pushed over at a 45-degree angle.
Scattered severe thunderstorms developed in the morning hours on a westward moving lake breeze. Later in the day another family of severe storms moved out of Iowa into southern Wisconsin. Torrential rains, large hail, and powerful damaging winds were associated with the storms. Many large trees were toppled, some of which fell on homes and vehicles. Lightning strikes started a fire which did damage to a chimney of a historical building in Greenbush (Sheboygan County). Otherwise, powerful winds blew down large trees in both in Elkhart Lake and Plymouth (Sheboygan County). A lightning strike severely damaged a silo near the city of Darlington (Lafayette County). Hail up to three inches in diameter pounded the area around Rolling Prairie (Dodge County), which resulted in damage to area crops, cars, and the roofs/windows of several homes. A 13-year-old boy was killed by lightining in Brown Deer (Milwaukee County) while playing on a swing set. Considerable street flooding occurred in Wauwatosa (Milwaukee County) as over one inch of rain fell in 15 minutes. A gazebo was destroyed and large trees felled by powerful winds near a TV station in Brown Deer. High winds demolished and moved an eight car garage 55 feet in West Bend (Washington County). Roof shingles were torn from several homes in Waukesha (Waukesha County) as powerful winds blew down several large trees. A home in Wauwatosa (Milwaukee County) had its chimny blown knocked off by a lightning bolt. Another home in Wauwatosa sustained damage to a bathroom due to a lightning strike. Another severe storms winds brought down numerous large tree branches near Palmyra. Lightning damaged the Oak Creek (Milwaukee County) 911 computer system after hitting the police radio tower. Another lightning strike injured a 35-year-old female police officer in the village of Norway (Racine County). Powerful winds damaged a yacht club in Kenosha (Kenosha County) near the Coast Guard, and another severe storm spun a Beechcraft airplane 180 degrees as winds hit 75 mph at the Kenosha City Airport. Powerful winds pushed hay wagons onto a road east of Darlington (Lafayette County). A spotter estimated winds of 75 mph north of Elkhorn (Walworth County) as several large trees fell over. Severe storm winds blew down many large trees in the communities of Janesville, Union, Edgerton, and Lima Center, all in Rock County. Several large trees were toppled by powerful winds which hit Oregon (Dane County), while lightning struck a car in Cambridge (Dane County) and destroyed its electrical system.
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.
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.
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