BlockFrom the record
One of 50 National Register listings published here for Walworth County · listed in 1993 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Grace and Pearl Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Pearl, Park, Dougall, Grace and Martin Sts., Sharon, 53585
- When was it listed? August 1993
- Category. district
- Village. Sharon village
- National Register reference number. 93000810 - 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
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Grace and Pearl Historic District between 2018 and 2019, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 19126 |
| 22 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 83 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grace and Pearl Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mchenry Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
23 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharon, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Sharon | $400,000 | Tornado started near the Illinois state line and tracked northward toward Delavan Lake. A number of farm outbuildings had roofing panels lofted off of them and a subdivision south of Delavan Lake had a number of large trees toppled. Tornado appeared to end north of Lake Lawn Resort, which had some tree damage to it. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $300,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $250,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Sharon | $150,000 | Low-end flash flooding affected scattered parts of Walworth County. Areas affected were the city of Lake Geneva, the village of Sharon, the town of Lyons, and the Town of Spring Prairie. Overnight rainfall amounts on top of a nearly saturated ground ranged from around 3 inches over the southern parts of the county to 4 to 6 inches over the northern parts, based on WSR-88D doppler estimates. Water depths on some roads in low spots reached 2 to 4 feet, and significant soil erosion was noted in the surrounding countryside. At least 20 homes sustained minor flood damage to basement contents. Altogether, residential damage was estimated at $31,000. Gravel shoulder washouts on some roads will require an estimated $19,500 to repair. The Sharon Department of Public Works sewer pumps were damaged by flood waters, and repair costs are estimated at $6,200. No major crop losses were reported. At a location 4ENE East Troy, 5.83 was measured overnight. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Sharon | $100,000 | Tail end of the tornado that began in northern Illinois and tracked just to the southeast to northeast of Sharon. A few barns had roofing damage to them. |
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Sharon | $15,000 | Flash flooding and closures of multiple roads across the southern portion of the county. Flash flooding of the White River led to flooded yards and a trailer being swept away. |
| September 1997 | Lightning | Sharon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $5,000 | An isolated downburst leveled trees on the southwest side of the village. There was slight power-line damage. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $5,000 | Isolated severe thunderstorms produced hail up to 1 inch in diameter and winds to 69 mph over Waukesha county and knocked down trees and power lines in Sharon (Walworth county). |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Sharon | $4,000 | The Walworth County Emergency Manager reported roads flooded and closed due to heavy rains in the area between Delavan and Sharon. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $2,000 | A tall tree snapped off and landed onto the roof of a home in Sharon. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $1,000 | A large tree was blown down. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Sharon | - | A photograph of a funnel cloud near the Village of Sharon was shared by broadcast media. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | - | Law enforcement officials reported trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 56 knots (65 mph). |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | - | A few large trees were uprooted or damaged east/southeast of Sharon along the state line. This damage was produced by the same supercell that spun up a tornado northeast of Pell Lake in southeast Walworth County. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Sharon | - | This hail report came from an airfield. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | - | Powerful thunderstorms winds knocked down large trees. |
| June 1998 | Flood | Sharon | - | The Little Sharon Creek overflowed due to heavy a rainfall of 3.5 inches in it's watershed overnight and flooded nearby Highway 67 with 1 foot standing water. |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Sharon | - | A brief tornado touchdown between Highway B and County Line road caused minor damage to a corn field , destroying a 20 by 40 foot swath of produce. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | - | no account filed |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown Darien Historic District | 7.0 miles | 2013 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93000810 in Record Group 79. |
| Walworth County | All 50 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.