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Ludington United States Coast Guard Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
From the record
“The Ludington United States Coast Guard Station is a Coast Guard facility located at 101 South Lakeshore Drive in Ludington, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.”
Wikipedia article Ludington United States Coast Guard Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Mason County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.10000264- 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
10 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Ludington United States Coast Guard Station
between 2005 and 2019, burning about 64 acres in total. None 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
5
Debris and open burning
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Recreation and ceremony
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
7 workings within 5 miles of Ludington United States Coast Guard Station: 3 producers, 3 past producers, 1 plant.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Bromine, Calcium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite. 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
Ludington, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail.
The reports record 5 injuries. 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.
Michigan Department of State Police - Emergency Management Division's (EMD's) Damage and Injury Assessment Report indicated $398,000 in public damage costs, 66 homes damaged, 3 homes destroyed, and 4 businesses damaged. Five injuries were reported, one of which required hospitilization. In addition, 12 vacation/secondary residences incurred major damage and 9 had minor damage. Newspaper and media reports indicated public and private damage costs combined exceeded $1.0 Million. Mason County declared a local state of emergency and was granted a Governor's disaster declaration to activate state assistance for the county. On June 24th, President Clinton granted a Major Disaster Declaration for Mason County, making federal disaster assistance available.
Numerous trees and power lines downed in Ludington. A large tree was blown over onto a house at 907 E. Russell Street. Three vehicles were also damaged at the mentioned residence.
A peak wind gust of 57 mph registered at the Mason County Airport just east of Ludington when a line of severe thunderstorms moved onshore around 12:15 AM EDT, Wednesday, September 17, 1997. The Mason County Road Commission reported trees and power lines were downed across the county, cutting power to 500 customers of Consumers Energy and Western Michigan Electric Cooperative. One tree, nine feet in circumference, toppled onto the roof of the Ludington Outboard Club building along the Pere Marquette Lake.
An isolated severe thunderstorm near Ludington produced wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph that brought down some scattered trees and power lines. Seven eighths inch diameter hail was also reported in Ludington.
An isolated severe thunderstorm brought down a couple of trees about four miles south of Ludington. One tree came down at Lakeshore Drive near the Ludington pumped storage plant and another tree came down in Riverton township.
A spotter in Ludington observed a gust of 59 mph in the shore area south of downtown Ludington. Three large trees were reported downed by the wind two miles northeast of Freesoil. One of the tree trunks was about 18 inches in diameter.
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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