Sprague Bridge

Built in 1913. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Juneau County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure · built in 1913.

Sources: 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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Over the Yellow R. SE of Finley, Finley Township, Finley, 54646
When was it listed? January 1995
Category. structure
Town. Finley town
When was it built? 1913
National Register reference number. 94001574 - 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Sprague Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 286 acres in total. 2 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	17
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Smoking	4
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Necedah National Wildlife Refuge	NOFAULTWF
18 September 1996	Smoking	2.3 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	POWERLINE
9 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	THURSDAY FIRE
27 August 1994	Natural	2.1 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 2003	Natural	25 acres	Necedah National Wildlife Refuge	SCOTT FIRE
15 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	66 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Juneau County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Finley, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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
September 2010	Flood	Finley	$900,000	The Yellow, Lemonweir and Wisconsin Rivers along with their tributaries flooded, which caused road closures, evacuations, and damage to some roads, homes and businesses. People were evacuated from a campground east of Mauston along the Lemonweir River, while a dozen campers, campsites and sheds were ruined. In Necedah, water rose onto the property of several businesses, while homes on the east side of town were evacuated. Five homes and 2 businesses incurred major damage, while 14 homes and 1 business reported minor damage. Some specific road closures included County Roads G and F, and 11th Street, as well as County Roads HH and N near Lyndon Station.
September 2022	Hail	Finley	$45,000	Up to 3 inch diameter hail was reported east of Finley that caused damage to some vehicles.
September 2022	Hail	Finley	$25,000	Egg sized hail was reported north of Finley.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Finley	$5,000	Trees were blown down across the northeast part of Juneau County in Finley and Armenia townships.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Finley	$2,000	Trees were blown down along State Highway 80 and County Road F.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Finley	$1,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Finley	$750	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Finley	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Finley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Juneau 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001574 in Record Group 79.
Juneau County	All 6 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.
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.