BlockFrom the record
One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
William Zachow Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Zachow, William, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 9533 WI 57, Bailey's Harbor, 54202
- When was it listed? January 1997
- Category. building
- Town. Liberty Grove town
- National Register reference number. 96001578 - 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.
The ground it stands on
4,444 wordsThis property stands in Liberty Grove Town. History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Liberty Grove Town - 4,444 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of William Zachow Farmstead between 1998 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 324 |
| 4 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 27 |
| 23 June 1998 | Debris and open burning | 88 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 61 |
| 6 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 170 |
| 25 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 13 |
| 25 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 12 |
| 15 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 132 |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of William Zachow Farmstead: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Door County Quarries | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Jarman Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Becker Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Josephs Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ephraim Moravian Church | 2.3 miles | 1985 |
 | Free Evangelical Lutheran Church-Bethania Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation | 2.3 miles | 1985 |
 | Hillside Hotel | 2.3 miles | 1985 |
 | Gibraltar District School No. 2 | 2.3 miles | 1985 |
 | Ephraim Village Hall | 2.4 miles | 1985 |
 | Peter Peterson House | 2.5 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 96001578 in Record Group 79. |
| Door County | All 68 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.