Ishpeming Fire Tower

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

“The Ishpeming Fire Tower is a fire tower located on Greenstone Ridge in Isle Royale National Park. The tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.”
Wikipedia article Ishpeming Fire Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Keweenaw County · listed in 2021 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. Greenstone Ridge Trail, Isle Royale NP, Houghton
When was it listed? January 2021
Category. structure
Also known as. Isle Royale National Park Fire Towers MPS
Township. Eagle Harbor township
National Register reference number. 100006001 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Ishpeming Fire Tower between 1999 and 2012, burning about 5 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	CHIPWITT#1
27 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	LAKE DESOR
23 July 1999	Natural	under an acre	Isle Royale National Park	WRIGHT IS.
22 May 2012	Natural	5.0 acres	Isle Royale National Park	LITTLE TODD

Every fire 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
	Isle Royale Light Station	7.7 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006001 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.