Bedrud-Olson Farmstead

Built in 1856. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Bedrud-Olson Farmstead is a highly intact tobacco and dairy farm with surviving buildings built between 1856 and 1915 in Christiana, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article Bedrud-Olson Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1856.

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 8 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Bedrud--Olson Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 996 E. Church Rd., Christiana, 53523
When was it listed? April 1999
Category. building
Town. Christiana town
When was it built? 1856
National Register reference number. 99000429 - 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

15 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Bedrud-Olson Farmstead between 2003 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
14 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	232
30 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	20841
11 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019093
8 May 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2018051
8 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	101
7 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1804253
3 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2019038
27 April 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bedrud-Olson Farmstead: 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Wolf Construction Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Carpenter Quarry No. 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Kaupanger-Ramsey Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lunde Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Norman Carpenter and Son	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Rucks Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Dane 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Hall, Samuel, House	4.3 miles	1993
Cambridge Public School and High School	5.0 miles	1998
Gaute Ingebretson Loft House	5.0 miles	1987
East Side Historic District	6.6 miles	1997
East Park Historic District	6.8 miles	2003
Depot Hill Historic District	7.0 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000429 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dane County	All 238 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.