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Photograph of Church of the Assumption
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Church of the Assumption

Built in 1858 (Carpenter Gothic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Church of the Assumption is an historic Carpenter Gothic style Roman Catholic church located on US 41, 400 feet east of M-26 in Phoenix in Houghton Township, Michigan. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”

Wikipedia article Church of the Assumption (Phoenix, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Keweenaw County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1858, Carpenter Gothic, by Frederic Baraga.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. US 41, E of M 26, Houghton Township, 49950
  • When was it listed? March 2000
  • Category. building
  • Township. Houghton township
  • When was it built? 1858
  • Architectural style. Carpenter Gothic, Gothic Revival
  • Architect. Frederic Baraga
  • National Register reference number. 00000220 - 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Church of the Assumption between 2002 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAGLE HARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000008 - 2019
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAHMEEK FD 0200024 - 2020
3 June 2002Natural7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 November 2010Recreation and ceremony3.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIFF'S DRIVE
8 October 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSW GRATIOT LAKE
30 October 2008Recreation and ceremony32 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNONAME

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 55 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of Church of the Assumption: 41 past producers, 12 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Silver, Copper, Arsenic. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
CliffSilver, CopperPast Producer1844, 1847
Fissure MinesCopper, Silver, ArsenicPast Producer1845, 1890
Phoenix AshbedCopper, SilverPast Producer1855
Central Cu MineCopper, SilverPast Producer
Cliff Copper MineCopper, SilverPast Producer
Phoenix Cu MineCopper, SilverProducer
Phoenix Fissure MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1844, 1931
Arnold Copper MineCopperPast Producer1860, 1900
Arnold Cu MineCopperPast Producer
Babbitt FissureCopperProducer1880

Every working recorded in Keweenaw 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Eagle River Historic District1.9 miles1984
Central Mine Methodist Church3.6 miles1970
Central Mine Historic District3.8 miles1974
Sand Hills Light Station4.3 miles1994
Holy Redeemer Church7.0 miles1972
Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse7.1 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000220 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Keweenaw CountyAll 31 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.