Chicago and North-Western Land Office

Built in 1897. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Chicago and North-Western Land Office, now the Wabeno Public Library, is a historic building in Wabeno, Wisconsin, United States. The building was constructed as a land office for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway in 1897 and was one of the first buildings in Wabeno.”
Wikipedia article Chicago and North-Western Land Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Forest County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1897.

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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4556 N. Branch St., Waubeno, 54566
When was it listed? December 1993
Category. building
Also known as. Public Library Facilities of Wisconsin MPS
Town. Wabeno town
When was it built? 1897
National Register reference number. 93001446 - 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

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Chicago and North-Western Land Office between 1994 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 5 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	15
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	1
Other causes	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
16 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	CABIN
25 July 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 July 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	QUARTZ TRAIL
12 July 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	HIMLEY ISLAND
26 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	not named
15 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	DAISY

Every fire recorded in Forest County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Chicago and North-Western Land Office: 6 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Carter Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Eugene Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Geiter Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Outskirts Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Range Line Lake Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Round Creek Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Round Lake Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Torpee Creek Gravel Deposit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Torpee Creek Gravel Deposit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Torpee Creek Gravel Deposit #3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Forest 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Minertown-Oneva	4.1 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001446 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Forest County	All 9 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.