Keweenaw National Historical Park

Built in 1992. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Keweenaw National Historical Park is a unit of the U.S. Established in 1992, the park celebrates the life and history of the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.”
Wikipedia article Keweenaw National Historical Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Houghton County · listed in 1972 · category: Site · built in 1992.

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

The listing

Address. P.O. 471, Calumet, 49930
When was it listed? October 1972
Category. site
Township. Franklin township
When was it built? 1992
National Register reference number. 01000108 - 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Keweenaw National Historical Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
25 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DOLLAR BAY VFD 0000012 - 2019
12 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.3 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 July 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HANCOCK FD 0000025 - 2018
14 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY-FRANKLIN-HANCOCK VFD 2019006 - 2019
7 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Keweenaw National Historical Park: 32 past producers, 14 prospects, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silver, 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	Recorded
Sturgeon Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Gedvillas Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Isle Royale	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1852, 1853
Isle Royale Amygdaloid	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1852, 1968
Isle Royale Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1853, 1885
Pewabic Amygdaloid	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1857, 1931
Quincy	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1856
Quincy Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1856, 1925
Superior Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wash Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this property

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calumet, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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
May 2011	Lightning	Calumet	$20,000	Lightning struck and damaged the steeple tower of the Keweenaw Heritage Center at St. Anne's located in Calumet Township on the early morning of the 11th.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Calumet	$5,000	The 911 call center reported trees and power lines downed.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Calumet	$1,000	There was a public report of a metal shed flipped over in Calumet by thunderstorm winds.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Calumet	$1,000	Approximately 2-foot diameter pine tree was uprooted in the backyard of a house on Rockland Street. The tree was lying in a north-northeast direction. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Calumet	$500	There was a report via social media of a large tree down at Lake View Cemetery in Calumet. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
May 2024	Hail	Calumet	-	Reports relayed through social media from the public, trained spotters and media partners of penny to quarter sized hail in Calumet.
June 2014	Hail	Calumet	-	Quarter-sized hail was reported in Calumet.
September 2013	Heavy Rain	Calumet	-	An automated rain gauge in the Calumet area measured two inches of rain in less than 45 minutes.
September 2007	Hail	Calumet	-	One-half to three-quarter inch diameter hail reported.
July 2006	Hail	Calumet	-	Hail fell in the Calumet/Laurium area.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Calumet	-	Large tree downed on power line.
June 2005	Funnel Cloud	Calumet	-	Funnel cloud observed over Lake Superior near the Upper Entrance of Portage Canal.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Calumet	-	Several trees downed up to 12 inches in diameter.
May 2012	Hail	Calumet	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Calumet	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Calumet	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Houghton 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Quincy Mining Company Historic District	1.2 miles	1989
Quincy Mine No. 2 Shaft Hoist House	1.5 miles	1970
East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District	1.7 miles	1980
Quincy Street Historic District	2.3 miles	1988
Shelden Avenue Historic District	2.3 miles	1987
Shelden-Dee Block	2.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000108 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Houghton County	All 41 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.