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Springstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Iron County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of Old Springfield Tote Rd. and WI 182, Sherman, 54552
  • When was it listed? April 1997
  • Category. building
  • Town. Sherman town
  • National Register reference number. 97000326 - 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Springstead between 1994 and 2020, burning about 188 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Other causes1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestDOUBLE NEWMAN
20 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBRANCH
11 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPICKEREL BAY
22 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSMILEY
10 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2000Natural79 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2000Natural29 acresChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestBEAVER CREEK

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Springstead: 11 occurrences, 4 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
Beaver Creek Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Beaver Creek Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Boot Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cecil Lovell Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Cecil Lovell Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Dump Rd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ferry Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Fred Losby PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Kabol Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Little Muskie Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000326 in Record Group 79.
Iron CountyAll 5 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.