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Photograph of Bergland Administrative Site
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Bergland Administrative Site

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Bergland Administrative Site, also known as the Bergland Ranger Station, is a government administrative complex consisting of six buildings located along M-28 in Bergland, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, and currently houses the Bergland Cultural & Heritage Center and The Bergland/Matchwood Historical Society Museum.”

Wikipedia article Bergland Administrative Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Ontonagon County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1936.

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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. M-28, Bergland, 49910
  • When was it listed? July 2005
  • Category. building
  • Township. Bergland township
  • When was it built? 1936
  • National Register reference number. 05000103 - 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

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bergland Administrative Site between 1992 and 2010, burning about 2 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
Debris and open burning2
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
27 August 2003Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOttawa National ForestLILLIE

Every fire recorded in Ontonagon County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bergland Administrative Site: 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Merryweather ProspectCopperProspect1852
Fox Valley PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ontonagon County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ontonagon County

Storms near this property

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bergland, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2013: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBergland$4,000The Ontonagon sheriff received numerous reports of downed trees and powerlines on the southern end of Ontonagon county, mainly near Bergland along M-64.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBergland$4,000Numerous large trees were reported down along East Shore Road eastward to Paulding.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBergland$2,000Several trees were downed, and one of the trees was estimated to have a 12-15 inch diameter. Time of the event was estimated from radar.
August 2013HailBergland-Gusty winds were also observed which knocked down some small limbs.
June 2012Heavy RainBergland-Observers from Bergland and Paulding to Rockland measured nearly two inches of storm total rainfall.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBergland-Branches estimated to be six inches in diameter were reported down. Pea-sized hail was also observed.
July 2003HailBergland-Nickel sized hail was reported.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBergland-10 to 16 inch trees downed.
October 2007HailBergland-no account filed
July 2006HailBergland-no account filed
June 2005HailBergland-no account filed
July 1999HailBergland-no account filed
May 1998HailBergland-no account filed
July 1997HailBergland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ontonagon 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000103 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ontonagon CountyAll 6 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.