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One of 65 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 1993 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Little Kaukauna 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, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Fox R. at Mill Rd., De Pere, 54115
- When was it listed? December 1993
- Category. district
- Also known as. Waterway Resources of the Lower Fox River MPS
- Town. Lawrence town
- National Register reference number. 93001332 - 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
9 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Little Kaukauna Lock and Dam Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 acres 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 33 |
| 22 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 54 |
| 20 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 191434 |
| 15 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20059 |
| 28 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20053 |
| 18 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20041 |
| 11 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 35 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 18027 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Little Kaukauna Lock and Dam Historic District: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daanen and Janssen | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Ebben Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Ira Nickel Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
20 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names De Pere, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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 2025 | Lightning | De Pere | $40,000 | Lightning struck an apartment building in De Pere causing electrical damage and a hole in the roof where the lightning hit the building. The lightning produced around $40,000 in damage and displaced 24 residents. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Pere | $30,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Pere | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees that caused damage to several homes on the south side of De Pere. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Pere | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed large tree branches. One of the branches crushed the roof of a car. |
| September 2005 | Tornado (F0) | De Pere | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Pere | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in De Pere. |
| May 2023 | Hail | De Pere | - | Nickel size hail fell in De Pere. |
| September 2023 | Hail | De Pere | - | Quarter size hail fell near De Pere. |
| April 2022 | Hail | De Pere | - | Quarter size hail fell in De Pere. |
| April 2022 | Hail | De Pere | - | Penny size hail fell near De Pere. |
| April 2022 | Hail | De Pere | - | Quarter size hail fell near De Pere. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Pere | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees across southern Brown County, including the De Pere area. |
| June 2012 | Hail | De Pere | - | Thunderstorms produced dime to nickel size hail near De Pere. |
| June 2006 | Hail | De Pere | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Pere | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | De Pere | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | De Pere | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Pere | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | De Pere | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Lightning | De Pere | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mueller-Wright House | 4.1 miles | 1978 |
 | Main Hall | 5.3 miles | 1988 |
 | Nicolet High School | 5.5 miles | 2015 |
 | De Pere Public Library | 5.6 miles | 2002 |
| Mansion Street WWII Defense Housing Historic District | 5.6 miles | 2021 | |
 | Edwin and Jennie Gutknecht House | 5.6 miles | 2015 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93001332 in Record Group 79. |
| Brown County | All 65 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.