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Photograph of Onaway State Park
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Onaway State Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Onaway State Park is a public recreation area covering 158 acres (64 ha) on the southeast shore of Black Lake in North Allis Township, Presque Isle County, Michigan. The state parks sits at the end of M-211 five miles north of Onaway.”

Wikipedia article Onaway State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Presque Isle County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 3622 MI 211 N., North Allis, 49765
  • When was it listed? December 2009
  • Category. district
  • Township. North Allis township
  • National Register reference number. 09001066 - 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Onaway State Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
4 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2013Power generation/transmission/distribution1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 04
19 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 04 - LOADED COOLER
13 July 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOREST-WAVERLY FD 2019017 - 2019
27 June 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2012Debris and open burning1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 09

Every fire recorded in Presque Isle County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Onaway State Park: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Onaway QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Presque Isle County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Presque Isle 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

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Presque Isle County Courthouse5.3 miles1980
Camp Black Lake6.6 miles2021

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09001066 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Presque Isle CountyAll 13 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.