Negaunee Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

“The Negaunee Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district located in Negaunee, Michigan, generally located between Peck Street and Rail Street, and between Tobin Street and North Teal Lake Avenue. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.”
Wikipedia article Negaunee Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Marquette County · listed in 2021 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Generally, Peck St. to Rail St. and Tobin St. to North Teal Lake Ave., Negaunee, 49866
When was it listed? September 2021
Category. district
City. Negaunee city
National Register reference number. 100006934 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Negaunee Downtown Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 40 acres in total. 5 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	10
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Other causes	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 September 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CARP BRIDGE
28 August 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MC AGAIN
27 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 June 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ISHPEMING CITY FD 0000033 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 153 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 153 workings within 5 miles of Negaunee Downtown Historic District: 101 past producers, 20 prospects, 16 occurrences, 10 producers. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Copper, Copper, Gold. 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
Krygorski Const Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Superior Gold & Silver Exploration	Gold, Silver	Prospect	1889
Unnamed Lead Prospect	Lead	Occurrence
Unnamed Gold and Copper Prospect	Copper, Gold	Occurrence
Unnamed Gold and Copper Prospect	Copper, Gold	Occurrence
Berringer & Thurber Gold Exploration	Gold	Prospect	1884
Boulson Exploration	Gold	Prospect	1891
Calumet Gold Exploration	Gold	Prospect	1883
Foley & Adams Gold Prospect	Gold	Prospect	1884
Krieg Mine	Gold	Past Producer	1899, 1901

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this property

22 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Negaunee, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 16 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
July 2008	Lightning	Negaunee	$20,000	Lightning struck a power pole outside a residence in Negaunee. The lightning bolt traveled into the residence igniting a fire.
May 2007	Hail	Negaunee	$6,000	Most hailstones were half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, but a few stones were three inches in diameter and shattered car windows.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Negaunee	$3,000	Several sources reported multiple trees and large limbs down across the city of Negaunee.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Negaunee	$1,000	Law enforcement reported a tree down from thunderstorm winds across Miller Road in New Buffalo location near Negaunee.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Negaunee	$500	There were social media photos of a few tree limbs down in a backyard in Negaunee. The time of the delayed report was estimated from radar.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Negaunee	$500	WLUC-TV6 reported a large diameter maple tree snapped along East Peck Street in Negaunee.
May 2018	Hail	Negaunee	-	One inch diameter hail was observed a few blocks just to the north of downtown Negaunee.
June 2016	Hail	Negaunee	-	A NWS employee reported nickel-sized hail in Negaunee with a few hailstones just under an inch in diameter.
June 2016	Hail	Negaunee	-	A NWS employee observed dime-sized hail in Negaunee.
June 2016	Hail	Negaunee	-	An amateur radio delayed report estimated one inch diameter hail in Negaunee. There were several dents observed on a car.
July 2016	Hail	Negaunee	-	The spotter in Negaunee observed pea to nickel sized hail.
July 2016	Hail	Negaunee	-	There was a delayed public report of quarter-sized hail near Negaunee.
July 2012	Hail	Negaunee	-	A National Weather Service employee measured dime sized hail and wind gusts to around 45 mph in Negaunee.
October 2012	Hail	Negaunee	-	Hail to one inch in diameter was reported near Negaunee.
October 2012	Hail	Negaunee	-	Penny-sized hail was reported in Negaunee.
July 2007	Hail	Negaunee	-	Observed at WFO Marquette.
July 2007	Hail	Negaunee	-	Observed at WFO Marquette.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Negaunee	-	Trees fell across power lines.
July 2007	Hail	Negaunee	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Negaunee	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Negaunee	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Negaunee	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
Negaunee State Bank Building	under 500 feet	1995
Negaunee Fire Station	0.1 miles	2004
Marquette and Western Railroad Negaunee Freight Depot	0.1 miles	2008
Sundberg Block	0.2 miles	2011
Jackson Mine	0.6 miles	1971
Cleveland Mine Engine House Number 3	2.4 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006934 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marquette County	All 40 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.
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.