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Photograph of Kewaunee County Sheriff's Residence and Jail
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Kewaunee County Sheriff's Residence and Jail

Built in 1876 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Kewaunee County Sheriff's Residence and Jail is a building in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, located at 613 Dodge Street on the southeast corner of the courthouse square. It was built in 1876 as the sheriff's office, residence, and county jail.”

Wikipedia article Kewaunee County Sheriff's Residence and Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Kewaunee County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1876, Italianate architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Court House Sq., jct. of Dodge and Vliet Sts., Kewaunee, 54216
  • When was it listed? July 1996
  • Category. building
  • City. Kewaunee city
  • When was it built? 1876
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 96000728 - 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

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kewaunee County Sheriff's Residence and Jail between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources44
30 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources27
14 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources201813
16 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources8

Every fire recorded in Kewaunee County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Kewaunee County Sheriff's Residence and Jail: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C Novak Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kewaunee Cnty. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kewaunee Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kewaunee Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mashek Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Rankin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stoller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Street Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kewaunee County

Storms near this property

41 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kewaunee, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 14 flood, 13 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 2019LightningKewaunee1 hurtA 30 year old male was struck by lightning in the city of Kewaunee. Kewaunee Police say the man was working for a company that was contracted to do some work in the area and had been holding an uncharged power line in the performance of his job when lightning struck. He was transported to the hospital and his condition is unknown.
August 2016Tornado (EF0)Kewaunee$25,000A tornado formed and moved northeast on the west side of the city of Kewaunee. About 100 trees sustained some damage (DI 27,28 DOD 1,2) and several were uprooted in wet soil. Several homes had shingle or siding damage (DI 2, DOD 1,2). A baseball dugout at a school was blown down. Average path width was about 75 yards.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindKewaunee$2,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindKewaunee$1,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Kewaunee. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Kewaunee. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-Thunderstorms produced a wind gust to 67 mph at a Mesonet site in Kewaunee.
June 2024HailKewaunee-Penny size hail fell in Kewaunee.
April 2022HailKewaunee-Quarter size hail fell in Kewaunee. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
March 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
May 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
April 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
January 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to high lake levels.
February 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
July 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
August 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
September 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to high lake levels.
June 2020FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to record high lake levels.
October 2019FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to high lake levels.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in and around Kewaunee.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Kewaunee. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
September 2019FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to high lake levels.
December 2019FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to high lake levels.
November 2019FloodKewaunee-Areas around the Kewaunee Marina were often under water due to high lake levels.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and branches from Kewaunee to Algoma.
August 2017HailKewaunee-Quarter size hail fell in Kewaunee.
April 2011HailKewaunee-Thunderstorms produced lime size hail that fell at Kewaunee.
April 2011HailKewaunee-Thunderstorms produced penny size hail that fell at the intersection of 3rd Street and Ellis Street in Kewaunee.
April 2011HailKewaunee-Thunderstorms produced penny size hail that covered the ground a couple miles southwest of the city of Kewaunee.
April 2011HailKewaunee-Thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail that fell in Kewaunee.
June 2011HailKewaunee-Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail, winds to at least 40 mph and heavy rain in Kewaunee.
March 2007FloodKewaunee-no account filed
July 2006HailKewaunee-no account filed
July 2006HailKewaunee-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-no account filed
July 1999LightningKewaunee-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindKewaunee-no account filed
May 1996HailKewaunee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kewaunee 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
Kewaunee Post Office0.2 miles2000
Marquette Historic District0.3 miles1993
MAJOR WILBUR FR. BROWDER (tugboat)0.3 miles2002
Kewaunee Pierhead Lighthouse0.6 miles2022
Pilgrim Family Farmstead6.8 miles1979
AMERICA (canaller) Shipwreck7.7 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000728 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kewaunee CountyAll 13 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.