BlockFrom the record
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Dickinson County · listed in 2022 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Iron Mountain Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- Address. 325 East H St., Iron Mountain, 49801
- When was it listed? June 2022
- Category. district
- Also known as. United States Third Generation Veterans Hospitals, 1946-1958 MPS
- City. Iron Mountain city
- National Register reference number. 100007870 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
145 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Iron Mountain Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital between 1992 and 2020, burning about 401 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 20 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 40 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.6 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BLACK WALNUT |
| 21 September 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000259 - 2018 |
| 17 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | DYNAMITE FIRE |
| 17 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BALZA |
| 25 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BREITUNG TOWNSHIP FD 2019-44 - 2019 |
| 16 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000174 - 2020 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 38 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Iron Mountain Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital: 22 past producers, 8 producers, 6 occurrences, 2 prospects. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niagara Greenstone Deposit | Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Caspian Const Co Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fayas Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Feeder Creek Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Florence County Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Jackie Foster, Inc. Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Leslie Larson Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| M-35 Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Menominee River Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Miller Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iron Mountain, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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 1995 | Hail | Iron Mountain | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dickinson County Courthouse and Jail | 0.5 miles | 1980 |
 | Iron Mountain Central Historic District | 0.7 miles | 2013 |
 | Chapin Mine Steam Pump Engine | 1.1 miles | 1981 |
 | Immaculate Conception Church | 1.6 miles | 1990 |
 | Ardis Furnace | 2.0 miles | 1972 |
 | Upper Twin Falls Bridge | 4.8 miles | 2012 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007870 in Record Group 79. |
| Dickinson County | All 7 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.