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Photograph of William and Susanna Geenen House
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William and Susanna Geenen House

Built in 1921 (American Foursquare). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The William and Susanna Geenen House is located in Kimberly, Wisconsin. Noted architect Henry Wildhagen was the designer.”

Wikipedia article William and Susanna Geenen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Outagamie County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1921, American Foursquare, by Henry Wildhagen.

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. Geenen, William and Susanna, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 416 N. Sidney St., Kimberly, 54136
  • When was it listed? February 1993
  • Category. building
  • Village. Kimberly village
  • When was it built? 1921
  • Architectural style. American Foursquare
  • Architect. Henry Wildhagen
  • National Register reference number. 93000070 - 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

30 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of William and Susanna Geenen House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined18
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20CL029
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesAP00565
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesAP00199
30 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources36
25 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18BU001
19 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources200931
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources235
15 July 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCF00059

Every fire recorded in Outagamie County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of William and Susanna Geenen House: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Midwest Perlite Co.PerlitePlant
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Kaukauna Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Monnot QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kurey Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R Evers Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Van Handel Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Van Handel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Outagamie County

Storms near this property

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kimberly, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1999LightningKimberly1 hurt, $750no account filed
August 2015Thunderstorm WindKimberly$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Kimberly, blocking a road.
August 2019Flash FloodKimberly$2,500Heavy rainfall led to flash flooding that caused the closure of part of southbound Interstate Highway 441 near the Appleton-Little Chute border.
June 2021HailKimberly-Penny size hail fell in Kimberly.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindKimberly-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Kimberly.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindKimberly-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Kimberly.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindKimberly-Thunderstorms produced a wind gust of 59 mph that was measured at Little Chute High School.
September 2015Flash FloodKimberly-Torrential rainfall in the Kaukauna area caused street flooding and popped manhole covers from their bases.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindKimberly-Thunderstorm winds snapped and uprooted trees in Kimberly.
June 2013HailKimberly-Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail as they moved through the Kimberly area.
June 2013Funnel CloudKimberly-A funnel cloud was spotted over Kimberly by a former NWS employee.
June 2013HailKimberly-Thunderstorms produced half dollar size hail west of Little Chute.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindKimberly-A measured wind gust of 61 mph was recorded just east of the city of Appleton.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindKimberly-Thunderstorm winds downed power lines at the intersection of Monroe Street and Willow Street in Little Chute.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindKimberly-Thunderstorm winds downed power lines in the Appleton and Kimberly area and knocked a tree onto a house.
June 2008HailKimberly-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindKimberly-no account filed
October 2004Funnel CloudKimberly-no account filed
August 2003HailKimberly-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindKimberly-no account filed
August 1999HailKimberly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Outagamie 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

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000070 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Outagamie CountyAll 51 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.