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One of 23 National Register listings published here for Oconto County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1916.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Mathey Building
Built in 1916. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 126 W. Main St., Lena, 54139
- When was it listed? February 1999
- Category. building
- Village. Lena village
- When was it built? 1916
- National Register reference number. 99000242 - 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
157 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Mathey Building between 1993 and 2017, burning about 234 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 52 |
| Debris and open burning | 50 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 August 2003 | Natural | 1.2 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 August 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY 22 FIRE 4 |
| 8 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HWY 22 FIRE 1 |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mathey Building: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Groveland Mine & Plant | Iron | Producer | ||
| Military Road Dolomite Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Elmer Hubbard Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gene Sager Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Spruce Township Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Zimmerman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
14 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lena, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lena | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused a barn to collapse and tore the roof from another. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lena | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked over part of a tall fence and caused the roof of a barn to collapse near Lena. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| September 2020 | Hail | Lena | - | Penny size hail fell in Lena. |
| September 2020 | Hail | Lena | - | Penny size hail fell near Lena. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Lena | - | Penny size hail fell in Lena. |
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | Lena | - | Several rounds of heavy rain that moved across Oconto County caused flooding of fields and ditches near Lena, where an estimated three inches of rain fell. Runoff from the rainfall caused the Little Suamico River to overflow its banks south of Sobieski. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lena | - | A trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust 3 miles NE of the town of Lena. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lena | - | Nickel size hail fell at Lena. The thunderstorm that produced the hail also brought winds of at least 50 mph an very heavy rainfall. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lena | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lena | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Lena | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lena | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lena | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Lena | - | no account filed |
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 record | The nomination case file for reference 99000242 in Record Group 79. |
| Oconto County | All 23 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.