Otter Spring House

Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Otter Spring House is a historic spring house in the Town of Lincoln in Forest County, Wisconsin. The spring house was built on Otter Spring in 1933 as a Civilian Conservation Corps project.”
Wikipedia article Otter Spring House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Forest County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1933.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Approx. 80 meters S of Spring Pond Rd., Lincoln, 54520
When was it listed? June 1999
Category. building
Town. Lincoln town
When was it built? 1933
National Register reference number. 99000684 - 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Otter Spring House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Fireworks	6
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 August 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	HIGHWAY 8 WEST
13 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	SHOEMAKER
6 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	NEVER SEEN IT
29 July 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Great Lakes Agency	not named
25 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	CHEVY FIRE
4 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Forest County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Otter Spring House: 12 occurrences, 10 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
C.J. Marshall Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Clear Lake Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Crandon Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crandon Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Forest Cnty Pits Townsend Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Half Lake Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Hogan Enterprises Inc. Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lake Lucerne Gravel Deposit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Lake Lucerne Gravel Deposit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Lake Lucerne Gravel Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Forest 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Camp Five Farmstead	5.5 miles	1996
	Connor Lumber and Land Company Store	7.0 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000684 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Forest County	All 9 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.