Photograph of Tippesaukee Farm Rural Historic District — Photograph by Tgkrause, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

John Coumbe Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Tippesaukee Farm Rural Historic District is a historic farming area in Richland County, Wisconsin. The John Coumbe Farmstead, also known as Tippesaukee Farm, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”
Wikipedia article Tippesaukee Farm Rural Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Richland County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Coumbe, John, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Jct. of WI Trunk Hwy. 60 and Co. Trunk Hwy. X, Town of Richwood, Port Andrew, 53518
When was it listed? June 1992
Category. building
Town. Richwood town
National Register reference number. 92000827 - 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of John Coumbe Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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	36
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Arson/incendiarism	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
Other causes	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
25 September 1999	Smoking	1.6 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	GARNER LAKE FIRE
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of John Coumbe Farmstead: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Blue River Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Dosch Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Excelsior Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hogskin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Andrew, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Andrew	-	An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred in Port Andrew.
August 2006	Hail	Port Andrew	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Port Andrew	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Tippesaukee Farm Rural Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.2 miles	1996
	Henry Fiedler House	7.6 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000827 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richland County	All 9 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.