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Photograph of Omro Village Hall and Engine House
Photograph by Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Omro Village Hall and Engine House

Built in 1896 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Omro Village Hall and Engine House, built in 1896, was the first centralized municipal building in Omro, Wisconsin, and the seat of local government for 70 years. In 1997 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its intact Late Victorian architecture and its role in the community.”

Wikipedia article Omro Village Hall and Engine House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 85 National Register listings published here for Winnebago County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1896, Queen Anne style.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 144 E. Main St., Omro, 54963
  • When was it listed? April 1997
  • Category. building
  • City. Omro city
  • When was it built? 1896
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style
  • National Register reference number. 97000327 - 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Omro Village Hall and Engine House between 2006 and 2020, burning about 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
13 May 2019Smoking10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202
18 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources150
18 March 2018Debris and open burning10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources133
7 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLeopold Wetland Management DistrictBRADLEY WF
24 October 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources495

Every fire recorded in Winnebago 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 Omro Village Hall and Engine House: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Allen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kalata QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Peters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Winnebago County

Storms near this property

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Omro, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindOmro2 hurt, $4,500,000no account filed
May 2000HailOmro$10,400,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOmro$1,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Omro. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds downed trees, power lines, and snapped power poles in Omro. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Omro. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn and flipped a semi west northwest of Omro. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds snapped and uprooted numerous trees between Omro and Waukau. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOmro-A thunderstorm wind gust of 72 mph was measured in Omro.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Omro. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Omro and blew sheet metal off a score board at Omro High School. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires between Omro and Winneconne.
July 2010Heavy RainOmro-Several periods of heavy rain across southern Winnebago County caused street flooding in Omro and Oshkosh. Streets in Omro were flooded, and a foot of water flowed across State Highway 21 and Industrial Road and nearly 2 feet of water flowed across 20th Avenue in the Westhaven area of Oshkosh.
July 2010Flash FloodOmro-Very heavy rainfall in a short amount of time resulted in a foot of moving water across Highway 21 near Industrial Road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindOmro-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph and uprooted trees around Omro.
July 2008HailOmro-no account filed
October 2004HailOmro-no account filed
June 2003Funnel CloudOmro-no account filed
April 2002HailOmro-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOmro-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOmro-no account filed
May 1995HailOmro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winnebago 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

5 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
Omro Downtown Historic Districtunder 500 feet1996
Omro High School, Annex and Webster Manual Training School0.3 miles1985
Cole Watch Tower2.0 miles1978
Augustin Grignon Hotel6.1 miles1975
Eureka Lock and Lock Tender's House7.0 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000327 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Winnebago CountyAll 85 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.