Built in 1911. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“The Cornell Pulpwood Stacker is located at Millyard Park in Cornell, Wisconsin, United States. It was utilized to move pulpwood logs into large piles so they could be sent through waterways to paper mills.”
Wikipedia article Cornell Pulpwood Stacker, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Chippewa County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure · built in 1911.
National Register reference number.93001425- 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
84 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Cornell Pulpwood Stacker
between 1992 and 2018, burning about 110 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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
20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
16
Equipment and vehicle use
16
Arson/incendiarism
8
Recreation and ceremony
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Smoking
4
Fireworks
4
Other causes
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Cornell Pulpwood Stacker: 4 producers.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cornell, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 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.
The emergency manager reported that the storm caused scattered trees down across nearly a one mile swath from the northwest side of Cornell. Some trees fell on houses and vehicles. A gazebo was also damaged, several garage doors buckled, and some shingles damaged.
A report of 65 mph winds was received from a trained spotter on the Chippewa and Taylor county line. In addition, the Eau Claire airport in the southern part of the county also measured a 55 mph wind gust.
Significant street flooding was reported in Cornell, Wisconsin where storm sewers were overflowing. Overnight rainfall reports were averaging between three and five inches across the county.
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.
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.
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