Eric and Jerome Skindrud Farm

Built in 1876 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Eric and Jerome Skindrud Farm is a farm started by Norwegian immigrants in Springdale, Wisconsin with intact farm buildings as old as 1876. The farm lies in a big valley prone to erosion and was early to try out erosion control dams and planting crops in contour strips.”
Wikipedia article Eric and Jerome Skindrud Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1994 · category: Site · built in 1876, Queen Anne style.

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

The listing

Listed as. Skindrud, Eric and Jerome, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 3070 Town Hall Rd., Springdale, 53572
When was it listed? September 1994
Category. site
Town. Springdale town
When was it built? 1876
Architectural style. Queen Anne style
National Register reference number. 94001156 - 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Eric and Jerome Skindrud Farm between 1994 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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	21
Arson/incendiarism	13
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
25 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18-2833
22 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19321
22 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 May 2003	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	ANDREWS LANE
7 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18-1228
4 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	19154
3 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	251

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Eric and Jerome Skindrud Farm: 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
General Silica Division Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Henderson Lime Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Jensen Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Mickelson Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Ringgenberg Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	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
Aslak Lie Cabin	1.0 miles	1986
Gonstead Clinic of Chiropractic	1.8 miles	2023
Mount Horeb Public School	2.2 miles	2010
Herman B. and Anne Marie Dahle House	2.6 miles	2003
Henry L. and Sarah Dahle House	2.6 miles	2003
Hoff Department Store	2.7 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001156 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.