Frederick Schumann Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Frederick Schumann Farmstead is a well-preserved saltbox-shaped stone farmhouse built by a German immigrant family in 1878 in Berry, Wisconsin. In 1993 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Frederick Schumann Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Schumann, Frederick, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 8313 WI 19, Berry, 53528
When was it listed? December 1993
Category. building
Town. Berry town
National Register reference number. 93001426 - 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Frederick Schumann Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 55 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	24
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	8.5 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WHIPPORWILL
24 June 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	COLLINS RIDGE
5 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019-40
10 May 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HILLSANDWOOD ROAD
9 April 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	3 SPOTS ON 12
5 April 1992	Recreation and ceremony	6.3 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FAR VIEW RD

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Frederick Schumann Farmstead: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
	Frank H Raemisch and Sons Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Marxville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Dane 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

6 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
Friederich Kohlmann House	0.7 miles	1974
Frey School	4.3 miles	2011
Adam Dunlap Farmstead	5.2 miles	2001
John and Margarethe Kemp Cabin	5.4 miles	2008
Wisconsin Heights Battlefield	5.6 miles	2002
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church	5.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001426 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane County	All 238 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.