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Photograph of George Lawrence Clarke Jr. House
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George Lawrence Jr. Clarke House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 153 National Register listings published here for Waukesha County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Clarke, George Lawrence Jr., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 12810 W. Hampton Ave., Butler, 53007
  • When was it listed? February 1995
  • Category. building
  • Village. Butler village
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 95000138 - 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

26 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of George Lawrence Jr. Clarke House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002767
9 August 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1768522
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005040
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1772992
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1802082
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803729
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801676
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801682

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of George Lawrence Jr. Clarke House: 5 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Stone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lannon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lannon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Reimer and Sons Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lannon QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Lannon QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
United Stone QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Wislanco Limestone QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butler, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1995Thunderstorm WindButler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Michael Wick Farmhouse and Barn3.0 miles1988
Menomonee Golf Club3.2 miles1988
George H. and Frances Daubner House4.0 miles2022
Visitation Convent Complex4.3 miles2011
Dousman Inn5.1 miles1979
Herbert Hoeltz House5.3 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000138 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Waukesha CountyAll 153 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.
  • 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.