BlockFrom the record
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1999 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Wyalusing State Park Mounds Archeological District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
The listing
- Address. 13342 Cty. Hwy. C, Bagley, 53801
- When was it listed? September 1999
- Category. district
- Also known as. Late Woodland Stage in Archeological Region 8 MPS
- Town. Wyalusing town
- National Register reference number. 99001175 - 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.
The ground it stands on
496 wordsThis property stands in Wyalusing Town. History of Grant County, Wisconsin, published 1881 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Wyalusing Town - 496 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
54 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Wyalusing State Park Mounds Archeological District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 152 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 | 23 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HORSE CAMP FIRE |
| 29 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 June 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 May 2012 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BUTTERFLY ROCKET |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Wyalusing State Park Mounds Archeological District: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dahman Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Quarry | Lead | Past Producer | Galena | |
| Sny Magill Mines | Lead | Past Producer | Galena | |
| Clark Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dallas Cohen Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mcgregor Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Sny Magill Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Wetzel Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
26 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bagley, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 6 hail, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Bagley | $2,200,000 | Flash flood waters backed up in town as debris blocked area bridges. The water was three to four feet deep in places and propane gas containers began floating on the Mississippi River. Property damage in town was extensive. |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Bagley | $800,000 | More than 20 roads were reported closed due to flash flooding. In fact, several roads remained closed, even one week after the heavy rains. There was also damage to bridges and culverts. For example, Ellenboro Road Bridge was closed for nearly a week after the heavy rains due to damage from a large amount of debris hitting the bridge. In addition, numerous farm fields were either water logged or had significant soil erosion, which could delay spring planting significantly. |
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Bagley | $300,000 | Emergency management reported debris blocking a railroad bridge resulting in storm water to overflow into portions of Bagley. This resulted in the inundation of several residences and prompted evacuations in the town. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bagley | $95,000 | Jellystone Campground was hit with many campers damaged. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bagley | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bagley | $15,000 | A tree was blown down onto a apartment building in Bagley. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Bagley | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bagley | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Flood | Bagley | $10,000 | After thunderstorms with heavy rain moved across Grant County, a few county roads were covered with water. |
| October 2018 | Flash Flood | Bagley | $5,000 | With already saturated ground, some flash flooding occurred across Grant County after a round of thunderstorms moved across the area. Water covered several roads including State Highway 81 between Cassville and Beetown and near Ellenboro. County Highway E had water over it between Stitzer and Livingston and County Highway O was closed between Potosi and Platteville. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Bagley | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bagley | $2,500 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Bagley | $2,000 | A mudslide occurred south of Bagley and the debris covered a 75 to 100 foot section of County Road A near Sandy Road. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bagley | $1,000 | Small trees were blown down in Bagley. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Bagley | $750 | no account filed |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bagley | - | An estimated 63 mph wind gust occurred in Bagley. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Bagley | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Bagley. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Bagley | - | Heavy rain caused water to spread over several roads in Bagley as the drainage system was not able to keep up the rain. Streams in the area were running very high. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Bagley | - | Heavy rain produced rapidly rising water in the Bagley area that forced the evacuation of one trailer home and caused water to go over County Highway X. Water also covered State Highway 35 in Patch Grove. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Bagley | - | A small tornado crossed the Mississippi River from Clayton County going through a campground north of Bagley before dissipating. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bagley | - | Several reports of 70 mile per hour winds were received from Bagley south to Glen Haven and east to Bloomington across the northwest portion of Grant County. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Bagley | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Bagley | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Flood | Bagley | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bagley | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Bagley | - | 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 99001175 in Record Group 79. |
| Grant County | All 36 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.