Island of Happy Days

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Island of Happy Days is a historic estate located on Stout Island in Red Cedar Lake, Barron County, Wisconsin. Built from 1909 to 1911, the estate was a summer home for the family of Frank Deming Stout, heir to the Knapp, Stout & Co. fortune.”
Wikipedia article Island of Happy Days, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Barron County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Stout Island, Red Cedar Lake, Cedar Lake, 54868
When was it listed? February 1995
Category. district
Town. Cedar Lake town
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 95000141 - 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

49 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Island of Happy Days between 1993 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	23
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Other causes	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BASS LAKE FIRE
4 May 1997	Other causes	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 May 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 May 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	R.C. LAKE
20 May 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Barron County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Island of Happy Days: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. 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
C. & R. Quillen Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Drew Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Smith Brothers Transfer Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Smith Brothers Transfer Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Barron 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 95000141 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barron County	All 7 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.