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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Presque Isle County · listed in 2024 · category: Building · built in 1937, Art Deco.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Rogers Theater
Built in 1937 (Art Deco). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 257 North 3rd Street, Rogers City, 49779
- When was it listed? August 2024
- Category. building
- City. Rogers City city
- When was it built? 1937
- Architectural style. Art Deco
- National Register reference number. 100010780 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
8 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Rogers Theater between 1994 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 July 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ROGERS CITY FD 2018F20 - 2018 |
| 25 June 2020 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ROGERS CITY FD 2020F21 - 2020 |
| 8 May 2005 | Debris and open burning | 7.9 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | 19 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 May 2001 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PRESQUE ISLE 04 |
| 6 November 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rogers Theater: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, High Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calcite Mill/Glawe Inc | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Calcite Plant | Limestone, High Calcium | Producer | 1912 | |
| Calcite Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
12 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rogers City, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rogers City | $2,000 | A single, large tree was downed. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rogers City | - | Numerous trees down. |
| June 2001 | Lightning | Rogers City | - | Large tree struck by lightning and downed across road. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rogers City | - | Trees down on South Rogers Rd |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rogers City | - | Gust of 60 mph reported at the 40 mile Point Lighthouse. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rogers City | - | Spotter reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Rogers City | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Rogers City | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Rogers City | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Rogers City | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rogers City | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Rogers City | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Radka-Bradley House | under 500 feet | 1991 |
 | Forty Mile Point Light Station | 6.5 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010780 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Presque Isle County | All 13 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.