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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
Rapide Croche Lock and Dam Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress, 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Fox R. at the Outagamie--Brown County line, Wrightstown, 54130
- When was it listed? December 1993
- Category. district
- Also known as. Waterway Resources of the Lower Fox River MPS
- Town. Kaukauna town
- National Register reference number. 93001326 - 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
12 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Rapide Croche Lock and Dam Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2020055 |
| 31 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 33 |
| 30 July 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 36 |
| 19 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 200931 |
| 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 |
| 16 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 21 |
| 6 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2020020 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rapide Croche Lock and Dam Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bodde Road Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Kaukauna Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Charles A. Grignon House | 3.7 miles | 1972 |
 | Kaukauna Locks Historic District | 3.9 miles | 1993 |
 | Norman Brokaw House | 4.0 miles | 1984 |
 | Capt. Matthew J. Meade House | 4.1 miles | 1984 |
| Eagle Paper and Flouring Mill | 4.3 miles | 2015 | |
 | Holy Cross Church | 4.3 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93001326 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.