Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 1997 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
This property stands in Gibraltar 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 Gibraltar Town - 4,644 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Welcker's Resort Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 81 |
| 7 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 61 |
| 13 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 42 |
| 22 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 51 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Welcker's Resort Historic District: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jarman Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Door County Quarries | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Church of the Atonement | under 500 feet | 1985 |
 | Alexander Noble House | 0.1 miles | 1996 |
 | Vorous General Store | 0.1 miles | 1997 |
 | Freeman and Jesse Thorp House and Cottages | 0.3 miles | 1997 |
| HANOVER (schooner) Shipwreck | 1.6 miles | 2015 | |
 | Eagle Bluff Lighthouse | 2.2 miles | 1970 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 97000328 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Door County | All 68 listed properties in this county. |
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