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Milwaukee County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Milwaukee County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy Historic District is the building complex of an agriculture school started in 1912 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, when farming was a big part of Milwaukee County's economy. In 1998 the complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Milwaukee County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 9722 Watertown Plank Rd., Wauwatosa, 53226
  • When was it listed? March 1998
  • Category. district
  • City. Wauwatosa city
  • National Register reference number. 98000258 - 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

42 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Milwaukee County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1778249
29 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1803041
26 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002767
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1767699
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005040
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806123
11 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806080
11 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806070

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Milwaukee County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy Historic District: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this property

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wauwatosa, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 1998Flash FloodWauwatosa1 hurt, $22,140,000no account filed
September 2006Flash FloodWauwatosa$100,000no account filed
September 2000Flash FloodWauwatosa$100,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa$50,000A trained spotter reported numerous trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 70 mph (61 knots) along a path from 2 miles west of Wauwatosa to just east of Cudahy. A downed power line sparked a house fire 3 miles southwest of downtown Milwaukee.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa$30,000A swath of significant tree damage. Approximately 80 trees damaged or downed.
April 2026Flash FloodWauwatosa$25,000Social media pictures and videos of cars stuck in flooded roads in downtown Milwaukee. DOT cameras show a few locations with cars stuck in water at highway underpasses.
June 2001LightningWauwatosa$25,000no account filed
June 2008LightningWauwatosa$20,000Lightning struck a home and started a fire that damage the roof.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa$10,000A large tree uprooted and fallen onto car.
August 2002Flash FloodWauwatosa$10,000no account filed
September 2022Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa-Public estimates winds at 60-65 MPH.
May 2014HailWauwatosa-The large hail resulted in broken windows, dented vehicles, and extensive damage to trees and shrubs.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa-Strong winds with an intensifying storm over Milwaukee County.
June 2014HailWauwatosa-Estimated 55 mph winds with the nickel size hail. Small tree limbs down and some street flooding due to 0.75 to 1.00 inches of rain in 30 minutes.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa-Large trees were either uprooted or split by powerful thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa-Powerful thunderstorm winds knocked down large trees.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindWauwatosa-Widespread large trees down. Measured peak gust on UW-Milwaukee campus.
April 2020HailWauwatosa-no account filed
August 2017HailWauwatosa-no account filed
April 2014HailWauwatosa-no account filed
April 2014HailWauwatosa-no account filed
July 2006HailWauwatosa-no account filed
March 2005HailWauwatosa-no account filed
March 2005HailWauwatosa-no account filed
May 2004HailWauwatosa-no account filed
May 2000HailWauwatosa-no account filed
April 1999FloodWauwatosa-no account filed
May 1995HailWauwatosa-no account filed
June 1995HailWauwatosa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Milwaukee 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

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000258 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Milwaukee CountyAll 300 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.