Minong

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Keweenaw County · listed in 2019 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Isle Royale NP, Isle Royale NP
When was it listed? January 2019
Category. district
Township. Houghton township
National Register reference number. 100003341 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Minong between 1994 and 2007, burning about 1 acre in total. 8 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
Natural	8
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
11 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	HASTINGS1
1 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	RICHIE EAST
14 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	WABONE
14 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	N BEAVERLK
12 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	CHIPPEWPTG
26 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	LUCKYEAGLE
18 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	SISKIWITLA
26 June 1995	Natural	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	MTSISKIWIT

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Minong: 3 past producers. 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
Datolite Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1846, 1848
Epidote Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1846, 1848
Minong Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1871, 1875, 1883

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

4 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
Isle Royale Light Station	6.9 miles	1983
Ojibway Fire Tower	7.0 miles	2021
Edisen Fishery	7.1 miles	1977
Rock Harbor Lighthouse	7.2 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003341 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.