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One of 6 National Register listings published here for Shawano County · listed in 1999 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Shawano Main Street Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
The listing
- Address. Roughly including E. Division St. and S. Main St., Shawano, 54166
- When was it listed? April 1999
- Category. district
- City. Shawano city
- National Register reference number. 99000440 - 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
39 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Shawano Main Street Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 82218 |
| 17 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2019134 |
| 16 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 August 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Menominee Tribe | CHICK-A-WATHA |
| 29 July 2002 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 July 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Menominee Tribe | BORDER |
| 19 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2019108 |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Shawano Main Street Historic District: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limekiln Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Limekiln Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Zimmerman Limekiln Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Montoure Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Oak Avenue Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ranch Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| River Road Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Small Pond Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Zimmerman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
43 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shawano, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 27 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1998 | Lightning | Shawano | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | $1,000 | A shed was damaged and trees were down on the east side of the city of Shawano. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Shawano | - | Quarter size hail fell in Shawano. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Shawano | - | Quarter size hail fell near Shawano. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Shawano. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| October 2023 | Hail | Shawano | - | Quarter size hail fell in Shawano. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Shawano | - | Half dollar size hail fell near Shawano. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Shawano | - | Nickel size hail fell in Shawano. |
| August 2022 | Hail | Shawano | - | Quarter size hail fell in Shawano. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees west of Shawano. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Shawano. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines in the city of Shawano. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of large trees that blocked the road near the town of Wescott on the west side of Shawano Lake. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree and power line damage in Shawano County. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees across Shawano County. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | Thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs in Shawano. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Shawano | - | Golf ball size hail fell at Shawano High School. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Shawano | - | Thunderstorms produced nickel size hail at the intersection of Highway 29 and Highway 22. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | Thunderstorm winds either uprooted or snapped many trees in Shawano. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | A trained spotter reported a thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 70 mph. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Shawano | - | The public reported 1 inch diameter hail in Shawano. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | Thunderstorm winds uprooted several trees in Shawano. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | Trees reported down over the central part of Shawano county. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Shawano | - | A brief, 20 second, landspout was observed and photographed southeast of Shawano but no damage was reported. The tornado was rated EF0. |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shawano | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Shawano Post Office | 0.1 miles | 2000 |
 | Lincoln School | 0.1 miles | 2013 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 99000440 in Record Group 79. |
| Shawano County | All 6 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.