Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
From the record
“The Chassell School Complex consists of two structures, originally built as school buildings, located at 42373 and 42365 North Hancock Street in Chassell, Michigan, United States.. The building at 42373 North Hancock currently houses the Chassell Heritage Center.”
Wikipedia article Chassell School Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 41 National Register listings published here for Houghton County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.09000473- 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 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Chassell School Complex
between 2000 and 2019, burning about 402 acres in total. 2 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
Natural
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of Chassell School Complex: 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 3 producers, 1 unknown.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Chassell, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 hail, 5 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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.
Flash flooding resulted in several washouts in the Chassell area, including Massie Road, Chassell-Painesdale Road, and Bootjack Road. Some of these areas experienced flooding in the recent past, including June 2025. Floodwaters impacted a few residences on Lakeshore Drive as well. US-41 had one foot of flowing water over the roadway near Chassell, resulting in a closure of one lane.
Heavy water equivalent precipitation of 2 to nearly 4 inches during the late-season snowstorm of May 1-2 caused minor snowmelt flooding of rivers and small streams over portions of northern Houghton County through the 12th. The most extensive flooding impacts were along the Sturgeon River basin.
Emergency Management, Law Enforcement, Broadcast Media, State Department of Transportation, and the Public reported flash flooding on the morning of the 21st. In Chassell, 4,000 yards of material on Massie Rd was washed out and Sadjak Rd was closed due to water over the road. In Houghton, standing water was observed on many roads, at least 2 road washouts occurred, and surface damage including sidewalk damage was observed at Agate St and MacInnes Dr. The City Council approved $150,000 for repairs. In Hubbell, debris was deposited on roads. In Calumet, sewer systems were overwhelmed and backing up into residences. Damage as also observed in Silver Creek.
Hail was observed on two different occasions in Chassell Township late afternoon on the 10th. This report is the first observation where nickel-sized hail was observed. A double rainbow was observed after each hail occurrence.
Abundant and anomalously wet snow pack along with periods of moderate to heavy rain contributed to widespread minor flooding along the Sturgeon River from the 18th through the end of the month. ||The Houghton County emergency manager reported that several houses and barns near the Sturgeon River at Chassell had rising water around them but no structures were inundated. Sturgeon River Road was reported to be under 6-8 inches of water and Rajala Road was under 8-10 inches of water. Multiple sections of Halonen Road near Pelkie and adjacent fields were reported to be under water the morning of 04/23 as the Sturgeon River crested. Rain and snow melt runoff along with some clogged culverts led to Highway M-26 being closed south of Hubbell on the night of the 22nd due to water over the road.
A spotter southeast of Chassel measured 2.45 inches of rain in a two and a half hour period with greater than one-inch per hour rainfall rates. Several inches of water covered Highway 41 near Chassel and Calumet during the heavy rain event. Water was also reported over several secondary roads near and just north of Chassel. In addition to the heavy rain, a lightning strike in northern Wisconsin around 3:30 AM CDT knocked out the main electrical transmission lines to the western half of Upper Michigan. Power was knocked out to nearly 75,000 residents for many hours throughout the western half of Upper Michigan. The power outage resulted in numerous school and business closures. For more information on the actual location of the lightning strike refer to the Storm Data entries for northern Wisconsin.
The Sturgeon River went above flood stage near Chassell on the 20th, and remained above flood stage into the afternoon of the 26th. Flooding was observed on Sturgeon River, Aho, and Rajala Roads during this time although no property damage was reported.
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.
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.
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