L. A. Pomeroy House

Built in 1904 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Pomeroy House is a historic house located at 203 Laconia Street in Amherst, Wisconsin. It is locally significant as a distinctive of the Queen Anne style, which peaked in popularity in the United States in 1880-1910.”
Wikipedia article L. A. Pomeroy House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Portage County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1904, Queen Anne style.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Pomeroy, L. A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 203 Laconia St., Amherst, 54406
When was it listed? November 1992
Category. building
Village. Amherst village
When was it built? 1904
Architectural style. Queen Anne style
National Register reference number. 92001560 - 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of L. A. Pomeroy House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 225 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	35
Railroad operations and maintenance	27
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	6
Fireworks	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
19 September 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WARD ROAD FIRE
17 September 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TRAIN BRAKE FIRE
12 September 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SMOKEY RR FIRE #1
9 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FOUNTAIN GROVE HOLDOVER
7 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	3.3 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PAVELSKI BALER FIRE
5 August 2012	Smoking	2.1 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HWY 10 WESTBOUND FIRE
3 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 1998	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Storms near this property

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amherst, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 heavy rain, 1 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
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	$1,000	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	-	Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees, power poles, and power lines in Amherst. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2023	Hail	Amherst	-	Penny size hail fell in Amherst.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees, about 5 inches in diameter, near Amherst.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Amherst.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked trees onto power lines near Amherst.
July 2016	Hail	Amherst	-	Nickel size hail fell in the Amherst area.
August 2015	Heavy Rain	Amherst	-	A spotter in Amherst measured more than 3 inches of rain since early morning, with more than 2.75 inches falling during the evening. The torrential rainfall caused a steet in Amherst to become impassable.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Amherst near County Road B.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees across southeast Portage County.
May 2011	Hail	Amherst	-	Penny size hail fell in Amherst.
May 2011	Hail	Amherst	-	Quarter size hail fell in Amherst.
July 2011	Heavy Rain	Amherst	-	Five cars were unable to pass under a railroad bridge on Main Street in Amherst due to high water from heavy rainfall.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in the town of Amherst.
March 2008	Heavy Rain	Amherst	-	Heavy rain fell across most of Portage County. The highest precipitation totals were 1.40 inches near Amherst and 1.22 inches at Stevens Point.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	-	A street sign was bent over by strong winds.
March 2007	Hail	Amherst	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Amherst	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Amherst	-	no account filed
May 1999	Funnel Cloud	Amherst	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Amherst	-	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Amherst	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Portage 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Rising Star Flouring Mill	3.3 miles	2018
Severance-Pipe Farmstead	3.8 miles	1993
Pipe School	3.9 miles	1993
New Hope Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery	4.5 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001560 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Portage County	All 22 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.
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.