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One of 51 National Register listings published here for Outagamie County · listed in 1993 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Little Chute Locks and Canal Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The listing
- Address. Roughly, along the Fox R. from Mill St. to Sanitorium Rd., Little Chute, 54140
- When was it listed? December 1993
- Category. district
- Also known as. Waterway Resources of the Lower Fox River MPS
- Village. Little Chute village
- National Register reference number. 93001325 - 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
29 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Little Chute Locks and Canal Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20CL029 |
| 7 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | AP00199 |
| 30 July 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 36 |
| 25 July 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 18BU001 |
| 19 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 200931 |
| 19 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 235 |
| 1 July 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 28 |
| 4 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 200592 |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Little Chute Locks and Canal Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midwest Perlite Co. | Perlite | Plant | ||
| Kaukauna Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Monnot Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| R Evers Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Van Handel Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
16 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Chute, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Little Chute | $6,800,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Chute | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Kaukauna and damaged the roof of a house. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Chute | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power lines in Kaukauna. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Little Chute | - | Quarter size hail fell near Little Chute. |
| September 2021 | Hail | Little Chute | - | Quarter size hail fell in Kaukauna. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| September 2021 | Hail | Little Chute | - | Hail of 3.75 inches fell near Kaukauna. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Little Chute | - | Another brief tornado damaged the roof of a barn (DI 1, DOD 2) and silo top northeast of Kaukauna. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph. |
| September 2017 | Hail | Little Chute | - | A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail and 40 to 50 mph wind gusts north of Kaukauna. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Little Chute | - | Nickel size hail fell at Little Chute. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Little Chute | - | Dime to nickel size hail fell at Little Chute. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Chute | - | Thunderstorm winds downed street lights near Highway 55 and I-41. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Chute | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped tree limbs near the intersection of Tobacnoir Street and Lincoln Avenue in Little Chute. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Chute | - | Thunderstorm winds downed many trees and power lines in Little Chute. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Chute | - | A thunderstorms wind gust to 65 mph was measured near SR-55 and US-41. The winds downed tree branches. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Chute | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Little Chute | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Cedars Lock and Dam Historic District | 1.2 miles | 1993 |
 | Klein Dairy Farmhouse | 1.4 miles | 1984 |
 | William and Susanna Geenen House | 1.5 miles | 1993 |
 | St. Mary's Catholic Church | 1.5 miles | 1984 |
 | Merritt Black House | 1.5 miles | 1984 |
 | Charles W. Stribley House | 1.6 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93001325 in Record Group 79. |
| Outagamie County | All 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.