Cleveland Mine Engine House Number 3

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Cleveland Mine Engine House Number 3, also known as the Brownstone Engine House, is a building located at 601 Division Street in Ishpeming, Michigan. It was built to house engines hoisting ore from various Cleveland Mine locales, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.”
Wikipedia article Cleveland Mine Engine House Number 3, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Marquette County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 601 Division St., Ishpeming, 49849
When was it listed? May 2007
Category. building
City. Ishpeming city
National Register reference number. 07000386 - 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

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Cleveland Mine Engine House Number 3 between 1994 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	6
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
4 September 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CARP BRIDGE
2 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.1 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HARD ROCK FIRE
30 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 169 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 169 workings within 5 miles of Cleveland Mine Engine House Number 3: 111 past producers, 25 prospects, 16 occurrences, 11 producers. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver. 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
Gold&Copper&Tungsten&Zinc Prospect	Copper, Gold, Tungsten, Zinc	Occurrence
Mi.Verde Antique Co.Dolomite Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Ropes	Gold, Silver	Plant	1880, 1882
Unnamed Copper and Zinc Prospect	Copper, Zinc	Occurrence
Unnamed Copper&Lead&Zinc Prospect	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence
Unnamed Molybdenum Prospect	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Ropes Mine	Gold, Silver	Producer	1880, 1882, 1989
Superior Gold & Silver Exploration	Gold, Silver	Prospect	1889
Unnamed Gold and Copper Prospect	Copper, Gold	Occurrence
Unnamed Gold and Copper Prospect	Copper, Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this property

32 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ishpeming, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 14 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 wildfire. 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
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ishpeming	$1,000,000	Law enforcement reported multiple large trees and power lines down in the city of Ishpeming.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	West Ishpeming	$10,000	A few trees uprooted or snapped and branches broken off in the South Angeline/Salisbury/Terrace Street area south of Ishpeming. One large branch fell on a car breaking the back window and doing additional body damage.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ishpeming	$5,000	There was a public report of a tree down over a vehicle in Ishpeming.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ishpeming	$3,000	Law enforcement reported a natural gas leak caused by damage from a large uprooted tree along East Johnson Street in the city of Ishpeming.
May 2012	Lightning	Ishpeming	$2,000	Lightning and high wind from thunderstorms caused more than 200 customers to lose power in Ishpeming.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	West Ishpeming	$1,000	There was a report of half a tree down and a power outage near Ishpeming from thunderstorm winds. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ishpeming	$1,000	Trees were reported down in Ishpeming. Time was estimated based on radar.
May 2018	Hail	Ishpeming	-	Nickel sized hail was observed just to the south of Al Quall Recreational Area in Ishpeming.
June 2018	Hail	West Ishpeming	-	Penny-sized hail was reported just west of Ishpeming.
June 2016	Hail	Ishpeming	-	There were public reports of dime-sized hail on Business M-28 between Ishpeming and Negaunee.
July 2016	Funnel Cloud	Ishpeming	-	A spotter near Ishpeming observed a funnel cloud over Bell Hospital. The funnel cloud went back up into the cloud when penny sized hail and a heavy rain were observed.
May 2015	Hail	West Ishpeming	-	There were delayed public reports via social media of nickel-sized hail in West Ishpeming.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ishpeming	-	One to two foot diameter trees were blown down.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ishpeming	-	Tree fell on automoble.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ishpeming	-	Two 8 inch diameter trees uprooted. Other trees down.
June 2001	Hail	Ishpeming	-	One inch hail.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ishpeming	-	Several trees down along US 41 west of Ishpeming.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ishpeming	-	Large tree down over County Road 581.
May 2007	Hail	Ishpeming	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Ishpeming	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Ishpeming	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Ishpeming	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Ishpeming	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Ishpeming	-	no account filed
May 2003	Flash Flood	Ishpeming	-	no account filed
May 2003	Flash Flood	Ishpeming	-	no account filed
May 2003	Flash Flood	Ishpeming	-	no account filed
May 2003	Flash Flood	Ishpeming	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Ishpeming	-	no account filed
May 1999	Wildfire	Ishpeming	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Ishpeming	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	West Ishpeming	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

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
Braastad-Gossard Building	0.4 miles	2015
Ishpeming Municipal Building	0.4 miles	1981
Ishpeming Main Street Historic District	0.5 miles	2021
Mather Inn	0.5 miles	1978
Cliffs Shaft Mine	0.8 miles	1992
Jackson Mine	1.8 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000386 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.