Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
From the record
“Little Norway was a living museum of a Norwegian village located in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin. Little Norway consisted of a fully restored farm dating to the mid-19th century.”
Wikipedia article Little Norway, Wisconsin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.98000169- 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
64 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Little Norway
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 151 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 were 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 burning
30
Arson/incendiarism
19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Recreation and ceremony
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Natural
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Little Norway: 4 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Blue Mounds, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
Training thunderstorms moved east-southeast across southwestern Dane County and dumped heavy rains overnight into the pre-dawn hours of August 5th. Fortunatly the thunderstorms were spread out, otherwise this would have been a flash flood event. Some basement flooding was noted due to drain-backups and sump pump failures, and these homes sustained water damage to contents. Additionally, most small creeks or streams in southwestern Dane County reached bankfull or flood stage; although no problems or road closures were noted. Specific rainfall totals include 8 at a location about 2.5 miles north-northwest of Daleyville, 6.2 about 3 miles northeast of Daleyville, 5.5 at a spotter's home 1 mile east of Mount Horeb, 5.25 at a location 1 mile southwest of Montrose and 5.0 in Blue Mounds and 2 miles southwest of Verona. Refer to the Flash Flood event for Iowa County on August 5, 2007, for related details.
Law enforcement officials reported damage from severe thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 knots (75 mph) in an 8-mile wide swath from southwest of Blue Mounds to east of McFarland. The damaging winds downed numerous trees and power lines, with 1000 customers left without power in the Madison area.
Highway F was flooded and closed between highway FF and Pleasant Valley Road due to the flash flooding of the east branch of Blue Mounds Creek. There were also shoulder washouts on highway F between Moyer Road and Zwettler Road. There were also shoulder washouts on highway JG between Little Norway Road and North Road. Approximately 5 to 7 inches of rain had fallen in about 5 hours.
County officials reported trees down due to thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 60 mph (56 knots) in a path from Blue Mound to Mount Horeb. County Highway JG near County Highway ID was blocked by fallen trees.
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.
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.
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