Tobin Harbor Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“The Tobin Harbor Historic District is a small resort community, consisting of 12 private camps and a fishery, scattered among several islands at the northeast end of Isle Royale near Rock Harbor. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.”
Wikipedia article Tobin Harbor Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Address. Eagle Harbor Township, Eagle Harbor
When was it listed? August 2019
Category. district
Township. Houghton township
National Register reference number. 100004256 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Tobin Harbor Historic District between 1997 and 2013, burning about 9 acres in total. 6 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	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
18 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	LOUISEWEST
9 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	REDROCK2
9 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	PORTER2
8 August 1997	Natural	1.4 acres	Isle Royale National Park	DUNCANBAY
30 August 2013	Natural	2.0 acres	Isle Royale National Park	FIVE FINGER
12 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	GLENNSISL
11 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	MERRITT
23 July 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	THREEMIJCT

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Storms near this property

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle Harbor, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2002: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle Harbor	-	Trees were downed at Eagle Harbor, Lac La Belle, Copper Harbor, Gay and Eagle River.

Every storm 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Passage Island Light Station	5.4 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004256 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.
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.