Brockway Mountain Drive

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“Brockway Mountain Drive is an 8.8-mile-long (14.2 km) scenic roadway just west of Copper Harbor in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. Drivers can access the road from State Highway M-26 on either end near Eagle Harbor to the west or Copper Harbor to the east in the Keweenaw Peninsula.”
Wikipedia article Brockway Mountain Drive, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Keweenaw County · listed in 2017 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Entire length of Brockway Mountain Dr., Eagle Harbor Township, 49950
When was it listed? July 2017
Category. district
Township. Eagle Harbor township
National Register reference number. 100001345 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brockway Mountain Drive in 2001, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
5 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Brockway Mountain Drive: 12 past producers, 6 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Aetna Copper Mine	Copper	Past Producer
Aetna Exploration Copper Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1864, 1867
Agate Harbor Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1846, 1854
Bluff Wyoming Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1865
Cape Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1854
Empire Copper Mine	Copper	Past Producer
Hanover Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1852
Lac La Belle	Copper	Prospect	1846, 1866
Medora Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1851, 1909
Mendota Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1850, 1866

Every working recorded in Keweenaw 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
Keweenaw Mountain Lodge and Golf Course Complex	3.7 miles	1980
M26-Silver River Culvert	4.0 miles	1999
US 41-Fanny Hooe Creek Bridge	5.4 miles	1999
Fort Wilkins	5.6 miles	1970
Copper Harbor Light Station	5.9 miles	2012
Eagle Harbor Coast Guard Station Boathouse	7.6 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001345 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Keweenaw County	All 31 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.