Severance-Pipe Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Portage County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Severance--Pipe Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Pipe Rd., 1/8 mi. E of Co. Hwy. T, Lanark, 54981
When was it listed? October 1993
Category. building
Town. Lanark town
National Register reference number. 93001163 - 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

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Severance-Pipe Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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	48
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Railroad operations and maintenance	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	3
Other causes	1
Natural	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
17 September 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	TRAIN BRAKE FIRE
16 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PROCESSOR FIRE
6 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SAND LAKE
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
26 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FROST VALLEY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Severance-Pipe Farmstead: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Q Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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
Pipe School	0.1 miles	1993
L. A. Pomeroy House	3.8 miles	1992
Rising Star Flouring Mill	7.0 miles	2018
New Hope Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery	7.3 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001163 in Record Group 79.
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.
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.