Saint Henry's Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Saint Henry's Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery is a church located on M-38 in Laird Township near Nisula. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.”
Wikipedia article Saint Henry's Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Houghton County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. MI 38 (Laird Township), Nisula, 49952
When was it listed? September 2013
Category. building
Township. Laird township
National Register reference number. 13000665 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Saint Henry's Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery between 1992 and 2013, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	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
24 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.7 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	STRAWBERRY LANE
10 May 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Ottawa National Forest	not named
10 May 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 October 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.5 acres	Ottawa National Forest	COURTNEY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this property

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nisula, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
May 2019	Flood	Nisula	-	Minor flooding was reported at the Sturgeon River near Alston during the afternoon the early evening of the 20th.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Nisula	-	Numerous trees were knocked down.
April 2002	Hail	Nisula	-	3/4 inch hail was reported.
April 2002	Hail	Nisula	-	Nickel sized hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Houghton 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000665 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Houghton County	All 41 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.