Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Dodge County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
This property stands in Burnett Town. The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin, Containing ... Its Early Settlement, Growth ... an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities ... War Record, Biographical Sketches, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Burnett Town - 6,954 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Willard Greenfield Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,123 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 280 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | DNR CLARK'S DITCH |
| 16 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | GATE WF |
| 14 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | BURNETT WF |
| 19 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | MARRE WF |
| 7 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 42 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | DEERE WF |
| 10 July 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 14 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.2 acres | Horicon National Wildlife Refuge | WINCH WF |
| 24 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 30 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 424201 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Willard Greenfield Farmstead: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C C Linck Garage Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dodge County Hwy. Dept. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Linck-Henes Construction Co., Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horicon, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 7 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2025 | Tornado (EF2) | Horicon | $3,400,000 | Tornado began southwest of Mayville just west of Highway 28 which was also captured on video as a potential multi-vortex tornado. Some of the more intense damage occurred shortly after the tornado developed and crossed County Rd TW on into southwest Mayville in an industrial area. A farmhouse on Cty RW lost a portion of its roof and some farm sheds. The tornado then moved through the industrial area in southwest Mayville. The Mayville Engineering Company was hit on its northwest corner. The winds from the tornado breached a large garage door on the west side which then pushed the large north end wall down. The tornado then went through the Gleason Reel Corporation and destroyed the southern portion of the building. It then went through a neighborhood near the St. John/Graceland cemetary before crossing Main St/Rock River. The tornado then went through the east side of Mayville near the Mayville Golf Course. It then continued to the northeast through mainly rural areas before ending NW of Theresa. |
| June 2000 | Tornado (F2) | Horicon | $1,110,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horicon | $20,000 | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horicon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horicon | $3,000 | Scattered branches and trees down in the Horicon area. |
| June 2000 | Hail | Horicon | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horicon | $1,000 | Many trees down along Raasch Hill Road. Six inch diameter branches hanging in the power lines. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horicon | - | Large tree down in Horicon. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Horicon | - | A shallow layer of mud flowing across the road due to an estimated one inch of rain in 20 minutes and a plugged culvert. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horicon | - | County sheriff deputies reported trees were blown down by the strong thunderstorm gusts. |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Horicon | - | A brief, weak tornado spun up on the edge of the Horicon Marsh, northwest of the city of Horicon, resulting in only minor vegetative damage. |
| September 1994 | Hail | Horicon | - | Severe thunderstorms deposited hail up to the size of golf balls over parts of Dodge County. About 100 vehicles received hail damage in Beaver Dam, nearly 50 of them on one auto dealer's lot. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Horicon | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Horicon | - | no account filed |
| February 2017 | Hail | Horicon | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Horicon | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Horicon | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horicon | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Horicon | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Lightning | Horicon | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Horicon | - | no account filed |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Daniel C. Van Brunt House | 3.4 miles | 1981 |
 | Horicon State Bank | 3.7 miles | 2018 |
| Van Brunt Memorial School | 3.9 miles | 2020 | |
 | Swan House and Vita Spring Pavilion | 6.4 miles | 1980 |
 | Weyenberg Shoe Factory | 6.5 miles | 2000 |
| Swan House and Vita Spring Pavilion | 6.5 miles | 1980 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92001557 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Dodge County | All 36 listed properties in this county. |
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