Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills Historic District is a historic stamp mill located on M-26 near Torch Lake, just east of Mason in Osceola Township. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.”
Wikipedia article Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Houghton County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. M-26, Osceola, 49930
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. district
Township. Osceola township
National Register reference number. 07000750 - 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 438 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
10 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAKE LINDEN FD 2019019 - 2019
26 July 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HUBBELL VFD 0724191 - 2019
22 July 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 June 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	400 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RICE LAKE

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills Historic District: 20 past producers, 10 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Copper, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Houghton Crushed Stone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
La Salle Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1910, 1920
Mich Tech University Exper	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pewabic Amygdaloid	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1857, 1931
Quincy	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1856
Quincy Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1856, 1925
Arcadian Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1863, 1898, 1902
Arcadian Copper Mine	Copper	Past Producer
Arcadian Copper Mine South	Copper	Past Producer
Concord & Douglas Copper Mine	Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this property

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osceola, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2023	Flood	Osceola	$18,000,000	A flash flood impacted the Lake Linden, MI area early on April 12th after a culvert under railroad tracks failed and released a flood wave resulting in an estimated $150,000 in\|damages. The flooding prompted a state of emergency declaration for Houghton County by Governor Whitmer. The culvert was recently installed as part of repairs following the Fathers Day flooding in 2018. There was also prolonged snowmelt flooding along the Sturgeon River which lasted through the 24th.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$4,000	The Houghton County Sheriff reported multiple trees down in the high terrain in northern Houghton County near Laurium. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$4,000	The Calumet Golf Club sustained tree damage. Several oak trees approximately one-foot in diameter were snapped. Several pine tree branches six inches in diameter were broken off. A one-foot diameter pine tree was also uprooted. Trees all fell to the northeast.

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
First Congregational Church	4.1 miles	1980
College Club House and Gymnasium	4.3 miles	1980
Joseph Bosch Building	4.3 miles	1982
Lake Linden Historic District	4.4 miles	2009
Lake Linden Village Hall and Fire Station	4.4 miles	1981
Ransom B. Shelden House	4.4 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000750 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.