Gwinn Model Town Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Marquette County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Including most of the original plat of Gwinn and surrounding greenbelt, Forsyth, 49841
When was it listed? June 2002
Category. district
Township. Forsyth township
National Register reference number. 00000286 - 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Gwinn Model Town Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 180 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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	33
Recreation and ceremony	10
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	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
8 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 August 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 August 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 August 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	AIRFIELD ROAD

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Gwinn Model Town Historic District: 15 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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	Recorded
Archibald Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1844, 1907, 1942
Archibald Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1907, 1911
Austin Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1844, 1905, 1929
Austin Mines Numbers 1 and 2	Iron	Past Producer	1903, 1905
Cleveland Cliffs Iron Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Francis	Iron	Past Producer	1893
Francis Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1844, 1893, 1939
Gardner-Mackinaw	Iron	Past Producer	1911, 1919
Gardner-Mackinaw Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1844, 1919, 1941
Mackinaw-Gardner Iron Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marquette 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000286 in Record Group 79.
Marquette County	All 40 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.