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Photograph of Camp Five Museum
Photograph by Jeff the quiet, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Camp Five Farmstead

Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Camp Five Museum is a living history museum located in Laona, Wisconsin, that interprets the forest industry and transportation history of Wisconsin. It includes part or all of the Camp Five Farmstead, also known as Camp Five Logging Camp, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”

Wikipedia article Camp Five Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Forest County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1914.

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

The listing

  • Address. 5466 Connor Farm Rd., Laona, 54541
  • When was it listed? January 1996
  • Category. building
  • Town. Laona town
  • When was it built? 1914
  • National Register reference number. 95001506 - 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

38 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Camp Five Farmstead between 1995 and 2016, burning about 48 acres in total. None 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1

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
18 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestOLD FARM
1 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestMIKO'S
13 August 2009Smokingunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestHIGHWAY 8 WEST
10 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCONNER FARM
7 July 2009Smokingunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestSHOEMAKER
11 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestWEST SHORE
6 June 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestARC
4 June 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestOLD 8 POWERLINE

Every fire recorded in Forest County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Camp Five Farmstead: 11 occurrences, 7 past producers. None of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Birch Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Camp Twenty Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Camp Twenty Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kokots Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Little Birch Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Rat River Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Rat River Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Riley Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Scattered Rice Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sugarbush Hill Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Forest County

Storms near this property

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laona, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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
June 2005HailLaona$100,000no account filed
May 2022HailLaona-Penny size hail fell in Laona.
May 2022HailLaona-Ping pong size hail fell in Laona. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLaona-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines across Forest County. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLaona-Thunderstorms produced strong wind gusts that knocked down dozens of trees around Laona.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLaona-Thunderstorm downburst winds snapped 15 to 20 trees across the county.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLaona-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLaona-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLaona-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLaona-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindLaona-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLaona-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLaona-no account filed
June 2000HailLaona-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLaona-no account filed
May 1998HailLaona-no account filed
September 1996HailLaona-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLaona-no account filed

Every storm 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

2 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
Connor Lumber and Land Company Store1.5 miles2019
Otter Spring House5.5 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001506 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Forest CountyAll 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.
  • 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.